'71 (film)

2014 British film by Yann Demange April 2014 July 2026 '71 71 poster.jpg UK release poster Yann Demange Angus Lamont Robin Gutch Gregory Burke Jack O'Connell Paul Anderson Richard Dormer Sean Harris Martin McCann Charlie Murphy Sam Reid Killian Scott David Wilmot David Holmes Tat Radcliffe Chris Wyatt Crab Apple Filmshttps://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7409c19e https://web.archive.org/web/20160325041043/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7409c19e dead 25 March 2016 71 (2014) British Film Institute 20 March 2023 Warp Films StudioCanal y 2014 02 07 Berlin Film Festival 2014 10 10 United Kingdom 99 minuteshttps://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/71-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0zotm2otk '71 (15) British Board of Film Classification 4 August 2014 26 February 2015 United Kingdom English £8.1 millionhttp://www.screendaily.com/features/yann-demange-71/5066376.article Yann Demange, '71 Wiseman Andreas Screen Daily 7 February 2014 21 December 2014 $3.1 millionhttps://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt2614684/ '71 Box Office Mojo 22 April 2015 '71 is a 2014 British thriller film directed by Yann Demange (in his feature directorial debut) and written by Gregory Burke. Set in Northern Ireland, it stars Jack O'Connell, Sean Harris, David Wilmot, Richard Dormer, Barry Keoghan, Paul Anderson and Charlie Murphy, and tells the fictional story of a British soldier who becomes separated from his unit during a riot in Belfast at the height of the Troubles in 1971. Filming began on location in Blackburn, Lancashire, in April 2013 and continued in Sheffield, Leeds and Liverpool.https://www.screenyorkshire.co.uk/showcase/71/ '71 – Screen Yorkshire Screen Yorkshire 2018-03-26 en-GB https://web.archive.org/web/20161115035306/http://www.screenyorkshire.co.uk/showcase/71/ 15 November 2016 dead dmy-all The film was funded by the British Film Institute, Film4, Creative Scotland and Screen Yorkshire,http://www.iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4285987&tpl=archnews&force=1 Production Begins on Northern Ireland-set '71' The Irish Film & Television Network Iftn.ie 16 April 2013 23 April 2013 and had its premiere in the competition section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, held in February 2014,http://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/alle/Alle-Detail_20500.html First Films for Competition and Berlinale Special 31 December 2013 berlinale https://web.archive.org/web/20131220045747/http://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/alle/Alle-Detail_20500.html 20 December 2013 dead dmy-all https://variety.com/2014/film/reviews/berlin-film-review-71-1201090449/ Film Review: ' '71' Lodge, Guy 7 February 2014 22 November 2014 variety.com where it was particularly praised for O'Connell's performance and Demange's direction. Plot Gary Hook, a new recruit to the British Army, is sent to Belfast in 1971 during the early years of the Troubles. Under the leadership of the inexperienced Second Lieutenant Armitage, his platoon is deployed without protective gear to a volatile area where Irish Catholics (largely Republicans) and Ulster Protestants (largely Loyalists) live side by side. The unit provides support for the Royal Ulster Constabulary as it inspects homes for firearms, shocking Hook with their rough treatment of Catholic civilians. A crowd gathers to protest against the search; the soldiers, who were ordered to leave riot gear behind, are ordered to keep the crowd back, but the latter turn violent when they witness the RUC beating homeowners in the street. One soldier is hit by a rock and drops his L1A1 rifle to the ground. In the confusion, a young boy seizes it and runs off through the mob. Hook and another soldier, Thompson, pursue him. As the crowd's protest escalates, the soldiers and police pull out, leaving the two soldiers behind. Hook and Thompson are severely beaten and disarmed by a mob, until a sympathetic woman manages to intervene. However, Thompson is suddenly shot dead at point-blank range by a Provisional IRA gunman, Paul Haggerty. Hook flees through streets and back alleys and hides in an outhouse until dark. After Hook leaves, he wanders into the Shankill Estate. A foul-mouthed Protestant youngster takes Hook to a local pub that serves as a front for Loyalists. There, Hook glimpses a Loyalist group in a back room constructing a bomb under the guidance of Sergeant Lewis, a member of the Military Reaction Force (MRF), the British Army's covert counter-insurgency unit. Hook steps outside the pub just before the bomb prematurely detonates and destroys the building, killing and injuring many of those inside, including the young boy. Unaware that the Loyalist bombers have blown themselves up accidentally, the Provisional IRA and Official IRA factions accuse each other of being responsible for the bombing. Hook staggers away and again gets lost in the streets, eventually collapsing. Two Catholics, Eamon and his daughter Brigid, discover him as he lies in a street unconscious and injured by shrapnel. They take him to their home in the Divis Flats. Eamon, a former army medic, stitches Hook's wounds. Despite the Provisional IRA having recently taken control of the area from the OIRA, Eamon contacts senior OIRA officer Boyle for help, expecting a more humane solution than the Provisional IRA faction would allow. Boyle, less radical and violent than the younger Provisional IRA members, tells Captain Browning, leader of the local MRF section, of Hook's whereabouts and asks in return that Browning kill James Quinn, a key leader of the younger Provisional IRA faction. Quinn and his squad have tailed Boyle since the pub explosion and saw him visit Eamon's flat without knowing why he was there. Sensing danger, Hook flees the flat, taking a large knife he finds in a bag. Hook eludes Quinn's men but, unable to evade Haggerty, stabs and kills him. Quinn's group captures Hook and takes him to a hideout. Quinn orders Sean, the young boy who, in the early neighbourhood persecution, had hesitated to kill Hook, to murder him. When Sean hesitates, Quinn prepares to execute Hook, only to leave when Browning's group arrives. Sergeant Lewis of Browning's group shoots Sean, to Hook's horror. Lewis then attempts to strangle Hook to prevent him from informing others about the bomb. As Lieutenant Armitage and his men enter in support of Browning, Armitage sees Lewis's attempt to kill Hook. Sean, having survived the first shot, raises himself and shoots Lewis dead, before being shot again, this time fatally by Armitage. Browning finds Quinn and, rather than arresting or executing him, tells him Boyle wants him dead and needs to be dealt with. As Quinn leaves, Browning tells him he will be in touch soon. Hook is returned to his barracks. Later, despite a formal complaint by Armitage, the commanding officer dismisses the incident involving Hook, Lewis and Sean as 'a confused situation' that merits no further inquiry. Hook returns to England, throwing his dog tags from the ferry, and is reunited with his younger brother, whom he had left behind in a care home. The pair leave on a bus, presumably to start a new life for themselves, away from war and conflict. Cast Jack O'Connell as Private Gary Hook Richard Dormer as Eamon Charlie Murphy as Brigid David Wilmot as Boyle Sean Harris as Captain Sandy Browning Killian Scott as James Quinn Sam Reid as Second Lieutenant Armitage Barry Keoghan as Sean Bannon Paul Anderson as Sergeant Leslie Lewis Jack Lowden as Private "Thommo" Thompson Adam Nagaitis as Jimmy Martin McCann as Paul Haggerty Babou Ceesay as Corporal James McArdle as Sergeant Mark McGowen Corey McKinley as Billy (Loyalist child) Paul Popplewell as Training Corporal Amy Molloy as Mother in Raided House Valene Kane as Orla (Spitting Girl) Harry Verity as Darren Reception Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 96% of 138 surveyed critics have given the film a positive review; the average rating is 7.80/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Powerfully directed and acted, 71 stays true to its fact-based origins while remaining as gripping as any solidly crafted action thriller." '71 (2015) http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/71_2015/ Rotten Tomatoes Fandango Media 27 December 2020 On Metacritic it has a score of 83 out of 100 based on 33 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".'71 Reviews http://www.metacritic.com/movie/71 Metacritic CBS Interactive 21 December 2014 Writing for the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan called 71 "a tense thriller from Britain that so adroitly joins physical intensity, emotional authenticity and political acuity that you may find yourself forgetting to take a breath."27 February 2015 Kenneth Turan Kenneth Turan Review: '71' delivers 100% tension amid 'the Troubles' in Ireland https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-71-review-20150227-column.html Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis of The New York Times singled out Jack O'Connell for praise, saying, "Mr. O'Connell runs away with 71, in which his character's every emotional, psychological and physical hurdle makes for kinetic cinema."26 February 2015 Manohla Dargis Review: In ' '71,' Young, Green and Behind Enemy Lines https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/movies/review-in-71-young-green-and-behind-enemy-lines.html The New York Times 28 April 2020 The Hollywood Reporter critic Leslie Felperin noted of Yann Demange's direction, "A big part of [Demange's] achievement resides in the casting of such a veteran crew of character actors in the first place, but credit is due for coaxing such subtle performances." Leslie Felperin '71: Berlin Review http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/71-berlin-review-678211 The Hollywood Reporter 7 February 2014 Jonathan Romney in Film Comment praised the originality of the film, "a rare hybrid between hard-nosed realism, on the cusp of a quasi-documentary style, and genre thriller-adventure", while criticising the opening and closing scenes as conventional. Jonathan Romney Film of the Week: '71 Film Comment 12 February 2015 http://www.filmcomment.com/blog/yann-demange-71-review/ 27 September 2015 Accolades 71 won Best Director at the 2014 British Independent Film Awards,https://variety.com/2014/film/news/benedict-cumberbatch-keira-knightley-attend-british-independent-film-awards-live-blog-1201373211/ Matthew Warchus' 'Pride' Wins Top Prize at British Independent Film Awards Barraclough Leo Variety 7 December 2014 21 December 2014 after receiving nine nominations.https://variety.com/2014/film/news/amy-gustin-deena-wallace-to-head-british-independent-film-awards-1201371851/ Amy Gustin, Deena Wallace to Head British Independent Film Awards Barraclough Leo Variety 5 December 2014 21 December 2014 The National Board of Review named 71 one of the top 10 independent films of 2015. National Board of Review Announced 2015 Award Winners December 2015 http://www.nationalboardofreview.org/2015/12/national-board-of-review-announces-2015-award-winners/ National Board of Review 1 December 2015 Award Date of ceremony Category Recipients ResultBritish Independent Film AwardsLeo Barraclough Matthew Warchus' 'Pride' Wins Top Prize at British Independent Film Awards Variety 7 December 2014 https://variety.com/2014/film/awards/benedict-cumberbatch-keira-knightley-attend-british-independent-film-awards-live-blog-1201373211/7 December 2014 Best British Independent Film '71 Best Director Yann Demange Best Actor Jack O'Connell Best Supporting Actor Sean Harris Best Screenplay Gregory Burke Best Technical Achievement Chris Wyatt (Editing) Tat Radcliffe (Cinematography) Best Achievement in Production '71 The Douglas Hickox Award for Debut Director Yann Demange References External links 2614684 71_2014 Category:2014 films Category:2014 action thriller films Category:2014 crime drama films Category:2010s historical thriller films Category:British action thriller films Category:British crime drama films Category:British historical thriller films Category:Urban survival films Category:Films about the Troubles (Northern Ireland) Category:Films set in 1971 Category:Films set in Belfast Category:Films shot in England Category:Films shot in Lancashire Category:Films shot in Liverpool Category:Film4 Productions films Category:British Film Institute films Category:StudioCanal films Category:2014 independent films Category:2014 directorial debut films Category:Films scored by David Holmes (musician) Category:2014 English-language films Category:2014 British films Category:Films about the British Army Category:English-language independent films Category:English-language crime drama films Category:English-language action thriller films Category:English-language historical thriller films Category:Roadside Attractions films Category:Films about riots and civil disorder