My Summer Of Love |
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 | In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona (Press) meets the exotic, pampered Tasmin (Blunt). Over the summer season, the two young women discover they have much to teach one another, and much to explore together read more.
Starring Natalie Press and Emily Blunt, directed by Paul Pavlikovsky.
Released 27 June 2005.
Universal Pictures Video. PAL, Widescreen.
Run Time 86 minutes. Classification  rrp £19.99. Our best price £5.00 |
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| A long, hot English summer creeps up on the emotions of two 16-year-old girls, who live in the same Yorkshire village but are really a world apart. Mona has had a tough time growing up, but has a wit and intelligence which combine to make her yearn for something beyond the daily grind. Tamsin is rich and spoilt and seems to offer an open door to a life of exotic fascination. This new friendship becomes all consuming and they plan to run away, but as the summer draws to a close it becomes clear that their passion will take a different and darker path. .. read more. |
| Barnaby Walter, 23 Jul 2008 |
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| Acted out against the colourful backdrop of dreamy Yorkshire, My Summer of Love is nothing less than a British gem. Even though the plot centres around a sexual relationship between two girls, Mona and Tamsin, the film manages not to carry the “gay movie” label, nor does it exploit or patronise the topic of same sex relationships.
Mona is a working class school girl living in her brother's pub. Since being released from prison, her brother Phil adopted born-again Christianity, realising he would rather spend his time teaching the love of God than selling booze at a bar. Frustrated and uncomfortable with the way her life is going, Mona strikes up an unlikely friendship with upper middle class, privately educated Tamsin (Emily Blunt). Their friendship develops into romance, with Tamsin introducing Mona to the joys of being oneself.
Throughout the film Paddy Considine helps further his reputation as one of the best British actors currently on screen, mixing his religion-obsessed role with gritty belief and an underlying menace that proves even more disturbing than Emily Blunt's manipulative Tamsin. However, this is not to shout down the performances of both Blunt and newcomer Natalie Press. Honest, vulnorable pain courses through Press's performance as her character, Mona, slowly realises how her summer of love has blinded her from the not-so-rosy reality.
Director Pavlikovsky films his sharp-edged love story with a fluent, mesmerising style that leaves an impression on you even more than the superb acting talent. The film could be accused of loosing it's way in mid flow, making the narrative route all the more uncertain. After watching the final scene, however, this path is revealed. You realise this is not a simple, passionate love story. It is a calculated study of cruelty, human nature and cold, hard-nosed desire. |
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