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Studio: IFC FilmsYear: 2009
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Sean Bean, David Morrissey, Eddie Marsan, Anthony Flanagan, John Henshaw, Sean Harris, Warren Clarke, Rebecca Hall, Cathryn Bradshaw, Paddy Considine, Jim Carter, Robert Sheehan, Maxine Peaks, Tony Pitts, Mark Addy, Peter Mullan, Saskia Reeves
Director: Julian Jarrold, James Marsh, Anand Tucker
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Rating: Not Rated for (violence, mature subject matter)
Run Time: 05h:08m:08s
Genre(s): drama, crime "A little girl goes missing. The pack salivates. If it bleeds, it leads, right?" - Eddie Dunford (Andrew Garfield)
Three films. Three different directors. One dark, brilliant story. Highly recommended.
Movie Grade: A-
DVD Grade: A-
This three film set is based on the series of novels by David Peace and adapted by screenwriter Tony Grison (Tideland, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas), who clearly has experience transforming complex books into manageable screenplays.
Originally developed for British television, IFC Films has packaged this as a 3-disc set that plays as what is technically one mammoth five-hour plus story about corruption, child murders and police brutality set over a nearly ten year period. The content is based on real-life events, to a degree, and there is stark noir quality to the entire experience.
1974 (2009)
Directed by Julian Jarrold
01h:46m:08s
The opening salvo is pretty intense, gripping stuff, led admirably by future Spider-Man Andrew Garfield as young buck crime reporter Eddie Dunford in 1974 Yorkshire, England. After a trio of young girls are abducted (and at least one of them savagely tortured and murdered), Dunford starts playing a deadly game of connect-the-dots, along with conspiracy-spouting reporter pal Barry (Anthony Flanagan). The tendrils of evidence quickly lead to what appears to be high level corruption, with the darkest connections leading to the mysterious and wealthy John Dawson (Sean Bean). As Dunford pokes his nose deeper into the investigation?much to the chagrin of his boss?he not only develops a questionable and dangerous romance with the mother (Rebecca Hall) of a missing child, but he finds himself pushed to personal extremes.
Director Julian Jarrold (Brideshead Revisited) sets the tone for the series by painting a cold and ugly Yorkshire in 1974, displaying a drab, rainy place percolating under the weight of political and social unrest. The backdrop is certainly bleak, made even bleaker by the presence of a brutal child killer who sews severed swan wings onto his victims. Garfield takes on the often cliched role of the plucky cub reporter, giving the character here a believable sense of journalistic drive, the kind that makes his actions more akin to simply wanting to do the right thing. Garfield's Dunford isn't a perfectly formed hero, and he often acts and reacts with youthful inexperience, unknowingly swimming amongst sharks as dredges up things best left undredged.
1980 (2009)
Directed by James Marsh
01h:37m:24s
The second installment, obviously set six years after the first, focuses on a righteous new main character?Inspector Peter Hunter (Paddy Considine)?as he is somewhat reluctantly brought in to lead an investigation of the investigation of the search for the Yorkshire Ripper, a killer responsible for thirteen murders that had the community in a panic. Directed by James Marsh (Man on Wire), 1980 prides itself on continuing along with the already established theme of evil and brutality introduced in the opening film, and the pen of Tony Grisoni remains this sets constant. It's a tough gig for Hunter, as the Yorkshire police are not so welcoming of an outsider digging into their dirt, and as the hunt for The Ripper escalates so does the revelations of internal corruption and crime.
Familiar secondary characters from 1974 take more of a center stage here, with Considine's long-suffering Hunter taking on a role not all that different from Andrew Garfield in the first film: good man trying to root out the bad guys against all odds. While 1974 was almost self-contained in its narrative, Marsh borrows and expands upon the first, moving along a different storyline while still remaining connected to the original events, and eventually how they remain tragically interwoven. There are no shortage of gruesome crime scene discussions and no letup in the series' overall grim tone.
1983 (2009)
Directed by Anand Tucker
01h:44m:36s
The final part of the trilogy has the difficult task of uniting the sprawling cast of characters and providing explanation and closure. It's a tough job, but the payoff is absolute and chilling, and there's a lot to unify, too, with director Anand Tucker (Shopgirl) wasting no time in addressing the hot points that need answering. It is here that the dark storylines from both 1974 and 1980 intertwine in curious and satisfying ways, as scruffy solicitor John Piggot (Mark Addy) becomes the accidental hero as he rips into the past to investigate the disappearance and murder of a young girl from the first film.
Tucker gets a pair of great performances from Addy and David Morrissey, who once again appears as put-upon investigator Maurice Jobson, who over the course of the three films showcases the ability to play a character that can be both reviled and pitied. Be warned that the final act digs into some very uncomfortable areas, but based on the subject matter it seems entirely unavoidable. Plus, the Yorkshire of 1983 looks no more welcoming than the one Julian Jarrold set up in 1974.
This is great stuff.
IMAGE/AUDIO
The back cover of the slipcase has it right, but the individual thinpak cases state all three anamorphic widescreen films are in 1.85:1, though only 1974 carries that aspect ratio; the other two titles are presented in 2.35:1. Jarrold's 1974, shot in 16mm, is the coarsest looking of the bunch, capturing the period color schemes and providing some semblance of a vintage vibe. Marsh retains a similar feel, though shot on 35mm, and the transfer still has some purposely rugged spots, but overall colors are significantly warmer. The final disc, shot with the Red One digital camera, is the most polished of the lot, with the disc sporting a strong set of colors, with no measurable artifacting.
Audio for all three is offered in Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, with optional subtitles in English SDH (a welcome addition for some of the thick English slang) and Spanish
EXTRAS
IFC has packaged this set in a slipcase, with three individual thinpak cases, one per film. All three feature an assortment of trailers, as well as identical non-anamorphic TV spots for the series, deleted scenes and brief behind-the-scenes/interview segments.
Keywords: yorkshire ripper, crime, corruption, child murders, serial killer
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