Starring John Hurt, I directed and wrote this drama doc about the WW1 poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen’s forbidden love affair, told through their passionate correspondence. John Hurt plays Sassoon in the 1960s, in the twilight years of his life. He is haunted by his experiences in the trenches and cannot overcome the grief of losing the love of his life. He provides the backbone to the film as we flash back with him to his younger self – played by Morgan Watkins (REMEMBRANCE). Wilfred Owen is played by Matthew Beard (The Imitation Game, One Day and An Education) and Robert Graves is played by Joe Claflin (Game of Thrones).
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Poignant, dramatised account of war poets’ Sassoon and Owen's relationship. Playing the aged Sassoon, his eyes clouding with traumatic reminiscence, Hurt can only be described as poetic, his cadence and timbre so clotted-cream-rich it should have come with a health warning.

Jim White, The Telegraph

Poignant, dramatised account of war poets’ Sassoon and Owen's relationship. Playing the aged Sassoon, his eyes clouding with traumatic reminiscence, Hurt can only be described as poetic, his cadence and timbre so clotted-cream-rich it should have come with a health warning.

Jim White, The Telegraph
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