Clara and her best friend Zoé head to summer camp for a week of adventure and self-discovery. Zoé quickly gets involved with Sébastien, but is upset to find he is dating her just to impress his buddies. For comfort, Zoé turns to Clara, telling her she loves her, but Clara rejects her advances. Clara hates camp and feels isolated. When Sonia, a beautiful bisexual, befriends her, the other campers accuse Clara of being a lesbian. To quell rumors of their romance, Clara decides to sleep with a male counselor, but this only complicates things further. Eventually, Clara succumbs to her attraction to Sonia, who helps Clara learn to express her own sensuality and self-awareness.
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“A hand grenade of a novel.” — Daily Mail”A sharp, disturbing and highly original debut novel.” — Sunday Mirror”Dark, intelligent and superbly written. Prepare to be seduced… and shocked.” — Glamour”Energetic and blackly comic.” — The Times“A savvy, comic/gothic debut exploring the angry mania of teenage alienation.” — Kirkus Reviews“Scabrous and cleverly evocative of the confusion of emergent adulthood, Cross’s blistering prose lifts a familiar storyline to another level.” — Kirkus Reviews
The film tie-in edition of Helen Cross’s hugely acclaimed debut novel.
Director Jacques Maillot’s exquisitely told psychological thriller focuses on Rachel (the tantalizing Sarah Grappin) a single mother who seems singularly devoid of maternal instinct. Abandoning her infant child, she embarks upon a series of affairs and travels to the French Montpellier Coast where she falls into a torrid affair with a young female thief. Meanwhile Claire (Nathalie Richard), a police detective who is desperate but unable to conceive her own child, grows increasingly obsessed with finding her. Director Maillot brings a taut, suspenseful atmosphere and understated compassion to this emotionally gripping tale.
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.
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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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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.
This digital document is an article from The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine), published by Thomson Gale on May 22, 2007. The length of the article is 3226 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation DetailsTitle: Hot summer movies: get the gay scoop on the season’s biggest blockbusters. We give you 20 good reasons to go to the movies this summer.Author: Kyle BuchananPublication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) (Magazine/Journal)Date: May 22, 2007Publisher: Thomson GaleIssue: 986 Page: 36(8)Distributed by Thomson Gale
