we re not here to discuss i humanity, that is religion s sphere of operations. and what of morality? i think it s such a good performance. so the film looks at his life, in wartime, after the war in which he surrounded by others and later on his marriage. in later years he s played by peter capaldi. and by the time he s played by peter capoldi he s basically become very, very embittered and you know, feelings of failure and desolation. and what s interesting about the film is, i think that terrence davies has found in the life of siegfried sassoon a number of elements that chime with his own preconceptions. there is a story about a character who is conflicted about his sexuality, and that is something in which terrence davies has addressed indirectly in his films before. there s the issue of religion. siegfried converted to catholicism later in life and terrence davies kind of famously turned his back on the church after feeling abandoned by it. and so what you have is an art
victoria derbyshire to take a look at benediction and more of this week s latest releases in the film review at 17.16. hello and welcome. a woman who was terrorised and abused by an mi5 agent is taking legal action against the security service. beth, not her real name, appeared in a bbc investigation which revealed her partner had his used his security status had used his security status to coercively control her. he also attacked her with a machete and threatened to kill her. the foreign national can t be named, after the government took the bbc to court to block publication. the man no no longer works for the service. earlier, i spoke to our home affairs correspondent, daniel de simone, who had this assessment. this was my investigation into this agent who we can referred to as x, and we found that he was a very serious domestic abuser, misogynist and extremist. he d abused two partners and boasted about abusing them and exploiting other women. 0ne them and exploiting other
who is conflicted about his sexuality and that is something in which terrence davis has addressed indirectly in his films before. there s the issue of religion. siegfried converted to catholicism later in life and terrence davies kind of famously. turned his back on the church after feeling abandoned by it. and so what you have is an artist, a poet of the cinema making a film about a poet whose life encompasses and social changes but at the centre of it it is a really kind of heartbreaking story about somebody who can t be who they are, isn t sure who they are, isn t certain that the art they are making is actually as good as it ought to be and seems to be trapped in a situation when they want to change the world, they want to change themselves and they are constantly thwarted. it s like a collage, it flips backwards and forwards in time and we get different actors playing the same characters. as always with terrence davies movies, is beautiful to look at, he is a real poet o
On Bbc News At Five. A former royal marine, Ciaran Maxwell, has beenjailed for 18 years for supplying bombs to dissident irish republicans. Plans to recruit an extra 21,000 Mental Health workers in england over the next four years, have been announced by the health secretary. Downing street has insisted that Free Movement of people will end in march 2019, when the uk leaves the european union. And real madrid superstar, Cristiano Ronaldo, has appeared before a court in the city accused of tax fraud. Good evening from Tyne Cot Cemetery in belgium, where commemorations have been taking place to mark 100 years since the start of one of the bloodiest battles of world war one. Over three months, british and allied troops fought with german soldiers in what became known as the Battle Of Passchendaele. In the fields around this cemetery, around half a million soldiers on both sides of the war were killed, wounded or went missing. Prince charles, along with the duke and duchess of cambridge, j
Annessa stagner. After working as a visiting associate and its assistant professor in pedagogical fellow in california, she now serves as the dean of Academic Services at lavar community college. Her research focuses on the history of psychological war trauma. Particularly the neurological effects of shellshocked during world war i. 1916will highlight how in the public began to understand of devastating complications the shellshocked tech epidemic. Later she will address how various attends were made to and oftenhe revocable invisible damage that this disorder wrought on soldiers and others involved in war. ,n this Centennial Anniversary this presentation is a talk that is both timely and irrefutably relevant to our world today. It is my pleasure to introduce dr. Annessa stagner. [applause] thank you for that introduction. As we have already heard this morning, the First World War marked for many the first modern industrial war. Indeed, as we have heard, total war. With it came new tec