'Benediction' is a thoughtful examination of memory, love, and war

Told across two separate timelines, Siegfried Sassoon (Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi) rejects his Military Cross and is sent to a mental institution after he pens a stinging rebuke of Britain's role in World War I. While there, he recuperates and begins to examine his lifelong work of poetry while engaging in scandalous affairs. Later in life, the elder Sassoon is received into the Catholic Church and wrestles with his past...