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Four Days in July

Genre	Drama
Written by	Mike Leigh
Directed by	Mike Leigh
Starring	Brid Brennan Stephen Rea Paula Hamilton Charles Lawson Eileen Pollock
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 (1984-11-29)

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 10–13 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 Charles Lawson as the Protestant couple, Lorraine and Billy, and Brid Brennan and Des McAleer as the Catholic couple, Collette and Eugene.^[8] Stephen Rea, Eileen Pollock, B.J. Hogg, and Shane Connaughton appear in secondary roles.^[8]^[9] The film's music was composed by Rachel Portman.^[9]

Reception

In 2009 The Times' Kevin Maher praised the film as a "must-see movie for anyone with a compassionate interest in an 800-year-old political sore."^[10]

Notes

^ Cardinale-Powell, Bryan; DiPaolo, Marc (22 July 2013). Devised and Directed by Mike Leigh. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. 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 167–68
^ 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.

References

Clements, Paul. "Four Days in July (Mike Leigh)." British Television Drama in the 1980s. Comp. George W. Brandt. Cambridge University Press, 1993. 162–176.

External links

Four Days in July at IMDb

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