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.
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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. 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.
WATCH BENEDICTN TRAILER: BPIC OF GAY WWI POET SIEGIED SASSOON
Brownie pots to Netflix for sponsorg this movie, which mt have only limed appeal even to olr gay viewers. The screenplay skat past Sassoon's brief return to active the war Siegied has a brief affair wh Ivor Novello (Jeremy Irve), shown here as the uber-bch London's far-om-discreet gay set. Unhappy wh homosexual life and nvertg to Catholicism, Sassoon marri.
I don't like beg gay. I thk I unrstand all his films a ltle better after readg that as they all have a poetic unrtone of sadns and regret while still at the same time pecially Benedictn display the gift of panache and sophistitn that many olr Gay men, pecially the film and televisn dtry posss. We see a range of the war's nsequent disabily, physil, emotnal and send war is the homosexual's mpaign to survive a bigoted cel world.