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Interview with Terence Davies about feature film, Benediction. "Ahead of the film’s debut on Sept. 12, Davies spoke with Variety about what draws him to a project, his hatred for films based on Jane Austen novels and his general amazement that he has managed to build an audience thanks to an uncompromising resume of masterworks that includes 'The Deep Blue Sea,' 'The Long Day Closes,' and, now, 'Benediction.'”

A first look clip of upcoming feature film, Benediction, was released ahead of its premiere at TIFF. "Dunkirk and Fighting With My Family star Jack Lowden leads cast as WWI poet and soldier Sassoon. As we previously revealed, Peter Capaldi will play Sassoon in his later years."

Announcement of the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival Lineup, including feature film, Benediction, who will have its North American premiere at the 2021 TIFF.

Review of feature film, The World to Come. "Pride month may be over, but it’s turning into a banner summer for LGBTQ+ stories at the cinema, and this gorgeous, heart-crushing period love story from director Mona Fastvold –finally making it to screens after a long pandemic delay – is among the best of them."

Review of feature film, The World to Come. "The World to Come is a tragedy and a love story – and also a puzzle, courtesy of the title. Does it mean the afterlife, the entry into paradise that will be recompense for all the hardship and injustice we’ve suffered here? Or does it mean the future: that progressive yearned-for place in which current bigotries will be abolished, and in fact the place from which we, in the 21st century, are looking back on this tale from the 19th, confident that we are freed from these bygone characters’ constraints, content that we understand what is going on and they may not?"

Review of feature film, The World to Come. "Loneliness and isolation have been pretty common themes in all of our lives over the past year, thanks to a pandemic that's kept us largely indoors and alone. The characters in The World to Come are farmers (and their wives), so they don't spend much time indoors and they're not entirely alone, either, but they're certainly isolated when the film begins against the harsh backdrop of the frontier of 19th Century upstate New York."

Early coverage of the 2021 San Sebastián International Film Festival, with mention to feature film, Benediction. "The 69th San Sebastian Film Festival has confirmed its first crop of Competition titles, including Terence Davies’ Benediction starring Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi. The movie chronicles different moments in the life of Siegfried Sassoon, a soldier and anti-war poet who survived the First World War. This will be British director Davies’ third time competing for the Golden Shell – San Seb’s top award – following The Deep Blue Sea in 2011 and Sunset Song in 2015."

Interview with Director Mona Fastvold about feature film, The World to Come. "I thought the text was beautifully written and interesting. I thought we have a lot of stories about really brave people, who do big things and this is a story about a brave person who does a big thing in her life, but a small thing in the larger scope of it all. Being led into the richness of her internal life, when she struggles so much to express herself – that’s a character that it’s worth spending some time with."

Indiewire's list of the best movies of 2021 so far, including feature film, The World to Come. "As coldly drawn as an atlas yet no less capable of enflaming the imagination, Mona Fastvold’s 'The World to Come' is a hard and brittle period love story that thaws into something much warmer — what its hyper-literate heroine would call 'astonishment and joy' — as a merciless 19th-century winter blushes into a most unexpected spring."

Interview with actor Katherine Waterston about feature film, The World to Come. "Waterston recently talked about researching medieval lesbian nuns for the role; how, even though she appreciates all the lesbian love she's getting for playing Abigail on Twitter, she doesn't understand Twitter; and why she thinks that, actually, the making of all these lesbian period dramas highlights 'a problem, not a pattern.'"