Dark River

Date: 2017
Director: Clio Barnard
Production Company: British Film Institute (BFI), Film4, Left Bank Pictures, Moonspun Films

Stars: Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley, Shane Attwooll, Dean Andrews, Mike Noble, Esmé Creed-Miles, Aiden McCullough, Joe Dempsie, Sean Bean
Location(s): East Riding of Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire

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Storyline:

The death of her father brings a young woman home for the first time in 15 years to claim the tenancy to the family farm that she believes is rightfully hers.

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Screen captures and uncredited comparison shots by Neil Webster

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Alice (leftmost, Ruth Wilson) working as a farm labourer. Head Farm, Flamborough, East Riding of Yorkshire.

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She confides in a colleague the death of her father (Sean Bean). Head Farm, Flamborough, East Riding of Yorkshire. Flamborough Lighthouse background left.

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Contemplating her future return to the family farm and its memories. South Landing Beach, Flamborough, East Riding of Yorkshire. Looking south-west towards Bridlington.

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The farm currently tenanted by Joe (Mark Stanley), Alice's brother. Studfold Farm, Eastby, Skipton, North Yorkshire.

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Alice's return home 1. near Windy Hill Transmitter, Rishworth, West Yorkshire. Looking down on the M62 Junction 22.

A misty January morning.

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Alice's return home 2. Back O' Th' Height, Ripponden, West Yorkshire. Looking across Ryburn Valley and Baitings Reservoir.

Winter in the valley.

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Alice's return home 3. Long Causeway, Ripponden. Looking along Long Causeway in the direction of Rishworth.

Road draped over the landscape, slinking towards Rishworth.

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Alice's return home 4. Barden Road, Eastby, Skipton, North Yorkshire. Eastby Crag rising above.

Steep meander upwards.

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Alice's return home 5. Barden Road again. Embsay Crag (distant right).

Area popular with rock climbers at the weekend.

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Off Barden Road. Looking south-west towards the gash of Skipton Quarry (foreground left of centre), profile of Weets Hill on the horizon (right).

Taken from Low Crag off Barden Road.

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Alice watches bathers. Janet's Foss, Malham, North Yorkshire. The titular Janet being a local fairy queen!

The waterfall is off Gordale Road and also appears from nearer the roadside in "Another Man's Poison." The fall in early spring is in full force and unfortunately I left the wellies in the car so this was as far east as I could reach without wet socks. SJ

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Closer view of the farm.

Taken from a nearby public footpath.

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Moonlit Lower Barden Reservoir, Barden Moor.

Daytime shot.

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Needing space after a fracas with Joe. Car Park at Black Hill, Barden Road.

The cloud lift'd.

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Visiting friend Matty (Dean Andrews) to borrow his ratter dog. Cragg House Farm, Eastby in North Yorkshire.

Again, taken from nearby public footpath.