Like his associate Wilfred Owen (Matthew Tennyson), Sassoon wrote of his experiences in World War I. (June 3 in theaters)īENEDICTION The British director Terence Davies (“The House of Mirth”) applies his poetic, prismatic touch to a biography of a poet: Siegfried Sassoon, played by Jack Lowden as a young man and Peter Capaldi at a later age. (In a 2018 review for The Times, Bilge Ebiri described it “as if Guy Maddin and Kenneth Anger adapted one of Joseph Conrad’s nightmares for a sexploitation producer.”) Mandico’s new film is set on another planet and involves an assassin who shares a name with the British art-pop singer Kate Bush. JuneĪFTER BLUE (DIRTY PARADISE) The director Bertrand Mandico’s “The Wild Boys” found a small cult of fans. Release dates and platforms are subject to change and reflect the latest information as of deadline.
Here is a select list of noteworthy films scheduled this summer.
