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DARK SECRETS: A masterly film that ended in tears - The Real Truth

Jack Lowden Siegfried Sassoon Terence Davies
Jack Lowden stars as Siegfried Sassoon in Terence Davies’ Benediction.
Jack Lowden stars as Siegfried Sassoon in Terence Davies’ Benediction. Photograph: Roadside Attractions/Laurence Cendrowicz/Allstar

Re men crying in films (Real men sob in spandex: wrestling movie The Iron Claw and the power of tears, 15 January), see Benediction by the late, great Terence Davies, which ends with several minutes of a young Siegfried Sassoon, alone on a park bench, gradually failing to control the weight of loss and misery. Jack Lowden looks straight at you, and I couldn’t look away from his snotty, crumpled face. Masterly.
Cassy Firth
Morley, West Yorkshire

• The Princess of Wales’s wish for her medical information to remain private is understandable (Princess of Wales is in London hospital for abdominal surgery, 17 January). But also the palace may have wanted to avoid unhelpful comparisons between arrangements for planned private treatment and NHS waiting lists.
Janet Guest
Swaffham, Norfolk

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