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July 03, 2022

Siegfried Sassoon’s niece hits out at biopic over misrepresentation of poet’s Catholic faith

July 03, 2022

The niece of Siegfried Sassoon has criticised a new biopic about the poet for its negative portrayal of his Catholic faith. Sister Jessica Gatty, a Sister of the Assumption, said that Benediction, a movie written and directed by Terence Davies, starring Jack Lowden in the role of Sassoon, was a “serious misrepresentation of the truth”.

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