Acclaimed writer-director Terence Davies crafts a sumptuous portrait of poet Siegfried Sassoon, who was decorated for bravery on the Western Front and is best remembered for his angry and compassionate poems about the First World War. In an inventive collage of drama, poetry, music and archive footage, Benediction peels off layers of heroism (Sassoon was decorated for bravery on the Western Front) and acclaim to explore loss and unfathomable trauma, as Sassoon's attempt at conscientious objection to the war leads to his being committed to a Scottish hospital.