Watch 'Benedictn' Trailer: Bpic of Gay WWI Poet Siegied Sassoon

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• BENEDICTN THOUGHTFULLY PICTS A MUNY OF GAY MEN
• WATCH BENEDICTN TRAILER: BPIC OF GAY WWI POET SIEGIED SASSOON

BENEDICTN THOUGHTFULLY PICTS A MUNY OF GAY MEN

Benedictn may be Terence Davi’s gayt film yet: a character study of a WWI poet who keeps tryg to revent himself and fd solace. Siegied Sassoon had more privilege than eher Ey or Hter, but (like Ey) was gay at a time when that was illegal and hhed up, and he was his prime when men his age were dyg drov on the battlefield. Though Davi, a queer filmmaker, tends to make films that are queer-d, Benedictn is unabashedly his gayt film to date.

Hter The Deep Blue Sea was both Davi’s and the also-gay Rattigan’s avatar; meanwhile, Davi totally erased Ey Dickson’s queerns A Quiet Passn. Ined, one of s bt quali is the way that Davi creat a whole muny of gay young men London who slept around wh each other, and whose gayns was an open secret.

WATCH BENEDICTN TRAILER: BPIC OF GAY WWI POET SIEGIED SASSOON

Given how much gayns has been d but unexprsed both Benedictn and Davi’s work more generally, as a shock when we actually see Sassoon fallg to bed wh another man. After one of his llo bes offhandly suggts that promiscuy and lack of mment are enmic to the gay muny bee everythg happens so secretly, Sassoon begs to nclu that he simply won’t fd love.