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You possibly might or might not know, but in case you don't - there's a new (premiered this year) movie about Siegfried Sassoon called "Benediction". I haven't watched it and have no idea whether it's good. But it exists, so I thought you need to know.

Sincere apologies for the delay, I am actually still in the midst of a weeklong series of overnight guests, both family and friends, who all actually just invited themselves over. Left to my own choices I would not have in fact been looking for guests to come stay just yet at the place I only moved into about 1 month ago and am still in the deeply time-consuming and not yet fully unpacked process of trying to get set up, much less for eight consecutive days,

BUT BELIEVE YOU ME, have I still been keeping tabs on Benediction through all this!!

Because it had its world premiere at TIFF just at the start of this past selfsame week, so you are far from alone in having not seen it yet; no one has, only those who attended the festival in Toronto or are an accredited film journalist who was granted virtual screening access. We also, as far as I can tell, do not yet have a distributor outside of the UK market, much less release dates, and the possibility that this might be one of those movies that waits a year after festival premieres à la First Cow in 2019 seizes my heart.

Because Benediction, for anyone who is unaware, is a new work written & directed by the sad gay British filmmaker Terence Davies, who quietly ruined my life back in circa 2013 with the post-war Britain affair drama The Deep Blue Sea. Now he has turned his sights on sad gay shellshocked First World War poets Siegfried Sassoon & company, Noted Interest Of the Blog, and from what I have cautiously, delicately picked up from tweets and review headlines from a handful of trusted sad gay film critics, it is: sad and gay!

Also I've saved this for last but Sassoon's kind psychologist at Craiglockhart, Dr. Rivers, whom you will know well if you've read Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy, is played in this film titled Benediction by sad gay The Exorcist priest and love of my life Ben Daniels, something so overwhelming to consider that I can't really, I just have this wrapped up in some soft wool and stored in a safe nook in my ribcage.

And that's where we're at re: Benediction, presently!