My Summer of Love (2004)

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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

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With a sharp script and terrific performances from its three leads, this is easily one of the best films of the year. 

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. With its focus on character and atmosphere, Pawlikowski's feature represents 90 minutes well spent for anyone who cares about such basic narrative building-blocks. Mona and Tamsin are worth the time we invest in them - and more. 

--James Berardinelli (ReelViews)

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I'm not sure if the movie has a point. I'm not sure it needs one. I learn from Variety that the screenplay is inspired by a novel by Helen Cross that also involves a miner's strike and some murders. All of that is missing here, and what's left is a lazy summer of sweaty uncertain romance; this isn't a coming-of-age movie so much as a movie about being of an age. 

--Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)

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Though laced with plenty of eroticism and emotional turmoil, My Summer of Love is ultimately about the irony of its title, as everyone in the film has their own idea of what love is, and sadly for our heroine, none of them coincide. 

--David Thomas (FilmCritic.com)

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Anchored by illuminating performances from Emily Blunt and Nathalie Press, “My Summer of Love” is an interesting take on romantic obsession and the fantasy of true love...It’s incredibly fluid and emotional work here from the talented Press, and she makes the film haunting in her own unique and subtle ways.  --Brian Orndorf (eFilmCritic.com) Though it’s based--very loosely, as it happens--on a novel by Helen Cross, Pawel Pawlikowski’s “My Summer of Love” feels like a cinematic short story, not merely because it runs a mere 83 minutes but because the narrative is so small-scaled and tightly focused. B --Frank Swietek Simple but effective performances, the clean beauty of the Yorkshire countryside and airy humor so ethereal it threatens to disappear altogether. This Summer is hot and sweet.  --Jeanne Aufmuth

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