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FUJIFILM MOTION PICTURE • THE MAGAZINE • EXPOSURE • 9
THEFOUR SEASONS
FAMILY MATTERS
AS MIKE LEIGH AND
DICK POPE BSC
COLLABORATE FOR
THE NINTH TIME ON
I ANOTHER YEAR
t’s been almost 40 years since Mike Leigh first examined the human condition on film in his debut feature Bleak Moments. The past twenty of those have been, of course, distinguished by the writer-director’s remarkable collaboration with Dick Pope.
While Leigh talks warmly about Pope’s “incredible imagination and technical inventiveness”, the veteran cinematographer returns the compliment paying tribute to the 67-year-old filmmaker’s “bravery” and refusal ever to compromise on his vision.for which the official ‘short synopsis’ offers a rather useful umbrella snapshot:
“Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. Family and friendship. Love and warmth. Joy and sadness. Hope and despair. Companionship. Loneliness. A birth. A death. Time passes...”
Photo: Ruth Sheen and Jim Broadbent in Mike Leigh’s Another Year
