Two Weeks in September

{{Short description|1967 British-French film by Serge Bourguignon}} {{EngvarB|date=June 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}} {{Infobox film | name = Two Weeks in September | image =Two Weeks in September.jpg | caption = | director = Serge Bourguignon | producer = Francis Cosne Kenneth Harper | writer = Vahé Katcha Pascal Jardin Serge Bourguignon Sean Graham (English adpt) | starring = Brigitte Bardot Laurent Terzieff Jean Rochefort James Robertson Justice Georgina Ward | music = Michel Magne | cinematography = Edmond Séchan | editing = Jean Ravel | studio = Films du Quadrangle Francos Films Kenwood Films Les Films Pomereu | distributor = Rank Film Distributors | released = {{Film date|1967|06|07|France|1967|10|26|UK|df=y}} | runtime = 95 minutes | country = France United Kingdom | language = French English | budget = 7 million francs<ref name="box">[http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com.au&sl=fr&u=http://www.boxofficestory.com/box-office-brigitte-bardot-c22691591/32&usg=ALkJrhiPmKuR-CUxGO49oE_QJeCVl9sn3w Box office information on film] at Box Office Story</ref> | gross =691,609 admissions (France)<ref name="box"/> }} '''''Two Weeks in September''''' (French title: '''''À coeur joie'''''; also known as '''''Joy-hearted''''') is a 1967 British-French drama film directed by Serge Bourguignon and starring Brigitte Bardot, Laurent Terzieff, Jean Rochefort and James Robertson Justice.<ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web |title=Two Weeks in September |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150045151 |access-date=19 August 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref>

==Plot== Model Cecile spends two weeks away from her older lover Philippe and is tempted by a younger man.

==Cast== *Brigitte Bardot as Cécile *Laurent Terzieff as Vincent *Jean Rochefort as Philippe *James Robertson Justice as McClintock *Michael Sarne as Dickinson *Georgina Ward as Patricia *Carole Lebel as Monique *Annie Nicolas as Chantal *Murray Head as Dickinson's assistant

==Production== The film was the sixth in a series of movies financed jointly by the Rank Organization and the NFFC. British companies provided 30% of the budget; French companies provided 70%.<ref>Petrie p 9</ref> It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location around London. Scenes for the film were also shot on the beach at Tyninghame in East Lothian in September 1966. The principal cast stayed at the Open Arms in Dirleton.[https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/lights-cameras-and-lots-of-action-for-the-screen-1-4039095] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925142134/https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/lights-cameras-and-lots-of-action-for-the-screen-1-4039095 |date=25 September 2018 }}<ref name="bar">{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/brigitte-bardot-ten-films-worth-watching/|date=29 December 2025|access-date=29 December 2025|title=Brigitte Bardot: Ten Films Worth Watching}}</ref>

==Soundtrack==

The soundtrack features two songs in English, "Do You Want to Marry Me?" and "I Must Tell You Why", with music by Michel Magne and vocals sung by David Gilmour, working as a session musician with his band Jokers Wild, before he joined Pink Floyd.<ref name="WH">{{Cite episode |title=David Gilmour: Wider Horizons |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06pyrbs |access-date=14 November 2015 |network=BBC |date=14 November 2015 }}</ref>

==Reception==

=== Critical === ''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' wrote: "Supremely ludicrous amalgam of all the clichés of women's magazine fiction, flashily photographed, and directed by Serge Bourguignon at a snail's pace and in a style that fully matches the inanities of the plot. The dialogue (rendered in Franglais) produces some of the best unconsciously funny lines for a long time, none better perhaps than kilted Scottish laird James Robertson Justices embarrassed explanation to the young lovers in his ruined castle that his tape-recorder is only supposed to be set off by a certain frequency emitted by birds – "And it would appear, madam, that you made exactly the same noise." There's a fashion photographer who tells his models to "hate me a little", a photographic session amid the pink deckchairs of a London park, and a whole succession of close-ups of Bardot in various stages of undress, including one of her in a bubble bath opining that "happiness is just drops of water". It might almost be a parody. But a film which signals a passionate love scene on a bed of straw in a ruined castle by a cut to waves pounding on a beach is obviously in deadly earnest."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1967 |title=Two Weeks in September |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305829047 |journal=The Monthly Film Bulletin |volume=34 |issue=396 |pages=172 |id={{ProQuest|1305829047}} }}</ref>

"Two hours wasted" said the ''Los Angeles Times''.<ref>'September' for Brigitte Bardot, Thomas, Kevin. Los Angeles Times 10 Nov 1967: d24.</ref> ''Filmink'' praised "the star power of Bardot" but added "it's not one of her better movies."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|date=11 August 2025|access-date=11 August 2025|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-british-film-studios-the-rank-organisation-1965-to-1967/|title=Forgotten British Film Studios: The Rank Organisation, 1965 to 1967}}</ref>

The film received very poor reviews overall.<ref>Petrie p 14</ref>

=== Box office === The film was a box office disappointment.<ref name="box"/>

==References== {{reflist}}

==Notes== *{{cite magazine|last=Petrie|first= Duncan James |year=2016|title= Resisting Hollywood Dominance in Sixties British Cinema : The NFFC/Rank Joint Financing Initiative|magazine= Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television|url=https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/94238/1/01439685_2E2015_2E1129708.pdf}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0062534}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20141227141311/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/94279/Two-Weeks-in-September/ ''Two Weeks in September''] at TCMDB *[https://www.reelstreets.com/films/two-weeks-in-september/ ''Two Weeks in September''] then-and-now location photographs at [https://www.reelstreets.com/ ReelStreets]

Category:1967 French-language films Category:Films directed by Serge Bourguignon Category:French romantic drama films Category:British romantic drama films Category:1967 films Category:Films shot in Scotland Category:Films shot in East Lothian Category:Films set in London Category:Films shot in London Category:Films shot at Billancourt Studios Category:David Gilmour Category:1967 British films Category:1967 French films Category:Films scored by Michel Magne