Four Days in July
Four Days in July | |
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Composer | Rachel Portman |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producer | Kenith Trodd |
Cinematography | Remi Adefarasin |
Editor | Robin Sales |
Running time | 96 minutes |
Production company | BBC |
Original release | |
Network | BBC One, BBC HD |
Release | 29 November 1984 |
Four Days in July is a 1984[1][2][3][4] television film by Mike Leigh. Set and filmed in Belfast, the film explores the Troubles by following the daily lives of two couples on either side of Northern Ireland's religious divide, both expecting their first children.[5] The film's action unfolds over 10โ13 July 1984; the two couples' children are both born on 12 July, the date of a Protestant celebration in Northern Ireland known as the Twelfth.[6] Despite the politically charged setting, the film is uniquely uneventful, at least on the surface; Paul Clements writes that "It is hard to identify any full length work by Leigh in which less of consequence seems to happen."[7] Broadcast only once, it was Leigh's last film for the BBC.[8][9]
Cast and crew
The film stars Paula Hamilton and
Reception
In 2009
Notes
- ISBN 9781623565640– via Google Books.
- ^ Monaco, James (10 July 1991). The Encyclopedia of Film. Perigee Books. p. 327 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Mike Leigh: how I got started in cinema". The Daily Telegraph.
- ^ "Four Days in July". TV Guide.
- ^ Clements 167
- ^ Clements 167โ68
- ^ 168
- ^ a b c Clements 176
- ^ a b c "Movie Reviews". The New York Times. 9 July 2019.
- ^ "TLS - Times Literary Supplement". TLS. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
- ^ Connaughton, quoted in Michael Coveney's 1996 The World according to Mike Leigh, p. 178
References
Clements, Paul. "Four Days in July (Mike Leigh)." British Television Drama in the 1980s. Comp. George W. Brandt. Cambridge University Press, 1993. 162โ176.
External links
- Four Days in July at IMDb