Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government’s continuation of the war when he returned from service.

From wartime resistance to champagne-addled dalliances with thespians and aristocrats, this soul-bearing biopic opens up the intimate life of Siegfried Sassoon. Writing the poet a silver tongue of devastating erudition, Terence Davies lays the emotional battles of this famous English pacifist bare.