Roadside Attractions has unveiled the domestic trailer for the biographical drama Benediction [BNDCT]. Jack Lowden [JLOWD] and Peter Capaldi [PCAPA] star as British Poet Siegfried Sassoon at two different age in his life. Directed by Terence Davies, Benediction opens in theaters on June 3rd.
The writer and soldier was a complex man who survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery but who became a vocal critic of the government’s continuation of the war when he returned from service. His poetry was inspired by his experiences on the Western Front, and he became one of the leading war poets of the era. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London’s literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality. At the same time, broken by the horror of war, he made his life’s journey a quest for salvation, trying to find it within the conformity of marriage and religion.
