Four Days in July
- measured
Neutral, measured, measured drama / northern-ireland, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.
Our read · Four Days in July (1985) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · northern-ireland · television entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Four Days in July
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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