# Two Weeks in September
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{{Short description|1967 British-French film by Serge Bourguignon}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Two Weeks in September
| image =Two Weeks in September.jpg
| caption =
| director = [Serge Bourguignon](/source/Serge_Bourguignon)
| producer = [Francis Cosne](/source/Francis_Cosne)
[Kenneth Harper](/source/Kenneth_Harper)
| writer = [Vahé Katcha](/source/Vah%C3%A9_Katcha)
[Pascal Jardin](/source/Pascal_Jardin)
Serge Bourguignon
Sean Graham (English adpt)
| starring = [Brigitte Bardot](/source/Brigitte_Bardot)
[Laurent Terzieff](/source/Laurent_Terzieff)
[Jean Rochefort](/source/Jean_Rochefort)
[James Robertson Justice](/source/James_Robertson_Justice)
[Georgina Ward](/source/Georgina_Ward_(actress))
| music = [Michel Magne](/source/Michel_Magne)
| cinematography = [Edmond Séchan](/source/Edmond_S%C3%A9chan)
| editing = Jean Ravel
| studio = Films du Quadrangle
Francos Films
Kenwood Films
Les Films Pomereu
| distributor = [Rank Film Distributors](/source/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[[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]
| gross =691,609 admissions (France)[{{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}}]
==Plot==
Model Cecile spends two weeks away from her older lover Philippe and is tempted by a younger man.
==Cast==
*[Brigitte Bardot](/source/Brigitte_Bardot) as Cécile
*[Laurent Terzieff](/source/Laurent_Terzieff) as Vincent
*[Jean Rochefort](/source/Jean_Rochefort) as Philippe
*[James Robertson Justice](/source/James_Robertson_Justice) as McClintock
*[Michael Sarne](/source/Michael_Sarne) as Dickinson
*[Georgina Ward](/source/Georgina_Ward_(actress)) as Patricia
*[Carole Lebel](/source/Carole_Lebel) as Monique
*[Annie Nicolas](/source/Annie_Nicolas) as Chantal
*[Murray Head](/source/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%.[Petrie p 9] It was shot at the [Billancourt Studios](/source/Billancourt_Studios) in [Paris](/source/Paris) and [on location](/source/location_shooting) around [London](/source/London). Scenes for the film were also shot on the beach at [Tyninghame](/source/Tyninghame) in [East Lothian](/source/East_Lothian) in September 1966. The principal cast stayed at the Open Arms in [Dirleton](/source/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 }}[{{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}}]
==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](/source/Michel_Magne) and vocals sung by [David Gilmour](/source/David_Gilmour), working as a session musician with his band [Jokers Wild](/source/Jokers_Wild_(band)), before he joined [Pink Floyd](/source/Pink_Floyd).[{{Cite episode |title=David Gilmour: Wider Horizons |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06pyrbs |access-date=14 November 2015 |network=[BBC](/source/BBC) |date=14 November 2015 }}]
==Reception==
=== Critical ===
''[The Monthly Film Bulletin](/source/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."[{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1967 |title=Two Weeks in September |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305829047 |journal=[The Monthly Film Bulletin](/source/The_Monthly_Film_Bulletin) |volume=34 |issue=396 |pages=172 |id={{ProQuest|1305829047}} }}]
"Two hours wasted" said the ''Los Angeles Times''.['September' for Brigitte Bardot, Thomas, Kevin. Los Angeles Times 10 Nov 1967: d24.] ''Filmink'' praised "the star power of Bardot" but added "it's not one of her better movies."[{{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}}]
The film received very poor reviews overall.[Petrie p 14]
=== Box office ===
The film was a [box office disappointment](/source/box_office_bomb).