Slowly evolves into an oddly affecting mood piece about lost girl–ness.
My Summer of Love (2005)
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Reviews Counted:86
Fresh:79
Rotten:7
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: My Summer of Love is a moody, bittersweet love story featuring outstanding performances from the leads.
Theatrical Release:Jun 17, 2005 Limited
Box Office: $859,409
Synopsis: My Summer of Love is this summer's most intoxicating and intriguing romance. From Pawel Pawlikowski, the award-winning director of "Last Resort", comes a tale of obsession and deception, and the... My Summer of Love is this summer's most intoxicating and intriguing romance. From Pawel Pawlikowski, the award-winning director of "Last Resort", comes a tale of obsession and deception, and the struggle for love and faith in a world where both seem impossible. The passionate, droll, and mysterious drama features striking performances from its two lead actresses, both of whom are movie newcomers. The film vibrantly charts the emotional and physical hothouse effects that bloom one summer for two young women (Natalie Press and Emily Blunt). Mona (played by Ms. Press), behind a spiky exterior, hides an untapped intelligence and a yearning for something beyond the emptiness of her daily life. Tamsin (Ms. Blunt) is well-educated, spoiled and cynical. As they are complete opposites, each is wary of the other's differences when they first meet, but this coolness soon melts into mutual fascination, amusement and attraction. Adding further volatility is Mona's older brother Phil (Paddy Considine), who has renounced his criminal past for religious fervor – which he tries to impose upon his sister. Mona, however, is experiencing her own rapture. "We must never be parted," Tamsin intones to Mona…but can Mona completely trust her? -- © Focus Features [More]
Starring: Paddy Considine, Natalie Press, Emily Blunt
Starring: Paddy Considine, Natalie Press, Emily Blunt
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Screenwriter: Michael Wynne, Pawel Pawlikowski
Producer: Tanya Seghatchian, Chris Collins
Studio: Focus Features
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Reviews for My Summer of Love
Pawel Pawlikowski has crafted a moody and disturbing love story of manipulation and betrayal with a smattering of spare parts.
When compared with most of what passes for honest teen drama these days, My Summer of Love is a real reprieve.
A love fantasy with sparkling performances by newcomers Nathalie Press and Emily Blunt.
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.
The inexperienced young actresses give such unaffected performances that the film develops a voyeuristic quality as the relationship takes on the momentum of a runaway train.
As coming-of-age stories go, My Summer Of Love is far more provocative and mysterious than most.
Exotic and erotic English film about two young girls who are carried away by their yearning to lose themselves in something transcendent.
My Summer of Love remains stubbornly stalled between 'artistic' lesbian hubba-hubba and such tougher fare as Peter Jackson's superior Heavenly Creatures.
Pawlikowski does such a great job of establishing a sense of youthful carelessness that we're sucked into Mona's summer adventure.
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.
Press and Blunt['s] characterizations are expressively detailed and never rely on declamatory dialogue or excessive behavior.
Despite the predictable collision course between Tasmin and Phil, this is a remarkable film.
Director Pawel Pawlikowski, whose last film, "Last Resort," was a minor revelation,..has chosen to adapt a novel which demands comparison to Heavenly Creatures...
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.
You get multi-dimensional characters that are usually absent from summer movies.
Pawlikowski treats the girls' escalating attraction with delicacy, avoiding the titillating pitfalls of the genre.
In adapting a novel by Helen Cross, the Polish-born Pawlikowski has made a strangely absorbing movie about trust and betrayal that showcases the work of two fine young British actresses, Natalie Press and Emily Blunt.
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