my summer of love
My Summer of Love is a 2004 British film directed by Pawel Pawlikowski and co-written by Pawel Pawlikowski and Michael Wynne. Based on a novel by Helen Cross, the film explores the relationship between two young women from different classes and backgrounds. Working class Mona (Press), whose once-hotheaded brother (Considine) became a born again Christian in prison, meets upper middle class Tamsin (Blunt) who suffers from a lack of love in her family. Filmed in West-Yorkshire, the film went on to win a BAFTA.
Reviews:
There’s a tantalizing touch of irony in the title My Summer of Love, since this superbly-acted relationship drama reveals much more than love between its curiously fascinating characters. As directed by Polish-born Pawel Pawlikowski (a veteran of British TV documentaries whose previous film was the praiseworthy Last Resort), this unconventional love story is an engrossing exercise in mood and psychology, set in a bleak but invitingly sunlit village in Yorkshire. It’s there that lonely, working-class teenager Mona (Nathalie Press) encounters rebellious rich-girl Tamsin (Emily Blunt), and their unlikely friendship grows intimate… but is it really love? Or is Tamsin (who was suspended from boarding school) merely indulging her clever penchant for emotional manipulation during a lazy summer of privilege? Mona’s born-again Christian brother (Paddy Considine) factors into the film’s languorous mood and complex emotional landscape; this is a film in which love and lo (more…)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
the dreamer and the cynic
In recent years there has been a crop of small films that recall those great small films of the early to mid-70’s.
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July 24th, 2009 at 5:35 am
5.0 out of 5 stars
Mesmerizing and Seductive!
I happened to enjoy the movie so much more than I did the book! Perhaps it was because of Emily Blunt’s incredible portrayal of Tamsin who is beautiful, seductive and very…
July 24th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
4.0 out of 5 stars
Slight but enjoyable
The Bottom Line:
Perhaps now best known as the film in which Emily Blunt removed her top, My Summer of Love is a fairly slight but interesting motion picture about an…
July 25th, 2009 at 7:34 am
5.0 out of 5 stars
not just an emily blunt showcase
Which is not to say she isn’t one of the best things about this wonderful little film. If you’re a straight man over 30, you might feel a bit like a perv watching the two lead…