No friendship is ever quite as consuming as one between two adolescent girls, and My Summer of Love very quickly moves on into dangerous Heavenly Creatures territory.
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 is helped by his young leads, who make a memorable impact in this unsettling romance.
Director Pawel Pawlikowski, whose last film, "Last Resort," was a minor revelation,..has chosen to adapt a novel which demands comparison to Heavenly Creatures...
A coming-of-age tale that eschews the typical trappings of that genre by making the friendship/love affair between two precocious adolescents into something powerfully obscure.
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.
What begins as a boozy and desultory love affair winds down to a powerful and suspenseful finish.
Ultimately, it's more about mood than the story, but boy, this is one good mood.
This isn't a coming-of-age movie so much as a movie about being of an age.
Press and Blunt['s] characterizations are expressively detailed and never rely on declamatory dialogue or excessive behavior.
Thoughtful, carefully crafted drama about youth and summer love in a small town is a great acting showcase for a talented cast.
Sometimes predictable and cliched, occasionally even dull, but worth watching because of the performances of newcomers Natalie Press and Emily Blunt.
[Pawlikowski has] created a most provocative love story, about two people who will never forget each other, but not for anything like the reasons they initially imagine.
For all its melodramatic excesses, My Summer remains highly watchable throughout.
Pawel Pawlikowski's lovely film tells a modest story. But it is a triumph of mood and implication.
Watching it, you're pulled in so completely that you begin to lose your bearings, too.
Superbly acted, movingly written, and directed with a tough-minded lyricism rarely found in today's films.
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