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My Summer of Love (2005)

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Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 87
Fresh: 78 | Rotten: 9

My Summer of Love is a moody, bittersweet love story featuring outstanding performances from the leads.

Average Rating: 7.8/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 1

My Summer of Love is a moody, bittersweet love story featuring outstanding performances from the leads.

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Two young women find love under difficult circumstances in this distinctive drama. Mona (Natalie Press) is a 16-year-old girl living in a small English town. There has never been much to do the neighborhood, and there's even less going on now that her older brother, Phil (Paddy Considine), who runs the local pub, has become a fanatical born-again Christian and is turning the tavern into a hall for prayer meetings. Tamsin (Emily Blunt) is another teenage girl who lives nearby; her mother is a

R, 1 hr. 27 min.

Drama, Romance

Directed By: Pawel Pawlikowski

Written By: Michael Wynne, Pawel Pawlikowski

In Theaters: Jun 17, 2004 Wide

On DVD: Oct 4, 2005

Box Office:$0.9M

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Critic Reviews for My Summer of Love

All Critics (98) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (81) | Rotten (9) | DVD (17)

A perfectly diverting, perfectly forgettable summer fling.

July 15, 2005 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel

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Roger Moore

Orlando Sentinel

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Turns out to be a triumph of unexpectedness in its slimmed-down story of two teenage girls, one middle-to-lower-class, and the other upper-class.

July 7, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Observer

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Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

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My Summer of Love is one of those promising little gems that comes along and gets lost in the hype generated by Hollywood's flood of blockbusters.

July 5, 2005 Full Review Source: ReelViews

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James Berardinelli

ReelViews

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Very good performances ...

July 5, 2005 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper

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Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

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Pawlikowski doesn't spend much time explaining his characters or telling us why they do what they do, and that's exactly why they remain so compelling.

July 1, 2005 Full Review Source: Toronto Star

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Geoff Pevere

Toronto Star

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It is a truly refreshing grown-up big-screen film.

July 1, 2005 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail

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Jennie Punter

Globe and Mail

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Mature coming of age story is for older teens and adults only.

July 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Cynthia Fuchs

Common Sense Media

The film reaches a point of high drama, for sure, but when Edith Piaf's voice rises over the final minutes, the gothic climax curls into a wicked grin.

June 5, 2008 Full Review Source: Paste Magazine

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Robert Davis

Paste Magazine

...there's little doubt that the film is occasionally just a little too uneventful for its own good.

March 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Pawlikowski does such a great job of establishing a sense of youthful carelessness that we're sucked into Mona's summer adventure.

August 19, 2005 Full Review Source: Kansas City Star

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Robert W. Butler

Kansas City Star

A movie you seem to watch through translucent eyelids...

August 5, 2005 Comment

John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Torrid eroticism tinged by a sense of menace . . . circles around its complex, conflicted characters before plunging into their dark feelings and hidden half-truths.

July 21, 2005 Comment

Brian Gibson

Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Pawel Pawlikowski's open and poetic new film proves without a shadow of a doubt that his stunning Last Resort from 2000 was no fluke.

July 21, 2005 Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews

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David N. Butterworth

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Well, im not 100% sure as to why this is a really liked movie, i didn't think there was very much too it, a compulsive liar, another one who is a bit rebellious fall in love, small town so cant keep it a secret so it doesnt last hence the title! I mean theres not a lot going on so i dont know why its such a big hit!

March 23, 2012

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Alienated by her brother's conversion to born-again Christianity, a young woman finds companionship and love with an equally abandoned upper class girl.The highlights of this film are the performances by the leads, Natalie Press, the always exceptional Emily Blunt, and the woefully under-used Paddy Constantine. Each

September 11, 2011