SYNOPSICS
My Summer of Love (2004) is a English movie. Pawel Pawlikowski has directed this movie. Natalie Press,Emily Blunt,Paddy Considine,Dean Andrews are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2004. My Summer of Love (2004) is considered one of the best Drama,Romance movie in India and around the world.
A tale of obsession and deception, and the struggle for love and faith in a world where both seem impossible. The film charts the emotional and physical hothouse effects that bloom one summer for two young women: Mona, behind a spiky exterior, hides an untapped intelligence and a yearning for something beyond the emptiness of her daily life; Tamsin is well-educated, spoiled and cynical. 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 volatility is Mona's older brother Phil, 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?
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it captures a certain something
I really enjoyed this film. I especially liked the langour of its pacing (helped by a wonderful soundtrack), certainly at the start where we simply observe the girls hanging out together drinking copious amounts of red wine and smoking constantly. Something about the timelessness, the heaviness of the heat, the bird song and buzzing insects caught perfectly that summer after 'A' levels where there is nothing to do but simply live, spend time with friends, and fantasies can take on a larger and more defined shape than realities. The 'lesbian' angle was handled deftly - though as another user commented, it would be good to see a film which manages to trace the intensity of female adolescent friendships without having them be sexual in nature - but this is a very special time, and the film caught that beautifully. The poignancy of Mona's existence was undersold as well, which gave it a greater power - she is the one who has truly suffered loss, whereas Tamsin... well, you have to make up your own mind about that. A minor film, but hits its notes perfectly.
A poor distant cousin to "Heavenly Creatures"
"Boring" should not be the first word to pop into your mind when trying to describe a lesbian coming-of-age drama with a 21-year-old Emily Blunt as one of the leads, but sadly that is the case with "My Summer Of Love". It's not just that "Heavenly Creatures" did this sort of thing much better a decade earlier; I also saw another movie recently, "Trap For Cinderella" (2013), which also does a better job of presenting a similar relationship. The main problem may be that Natalie Press' character is not very appealing, while Emily Blunt's character is not exotic enough. Another problem is the director's occasional pseudo-cinema-veritè style, with amateurish-looking camera zoom-ins and -outs. There IS a surprise at the end, however, for those who stick with the movie. And Emily Blunt, in one of her first roles, is captivating; no offense to Natalie Press, who acts naturally enough, but you can see why Blunt became a big star and Press did not - there is a difference in their screen magnetism levels. ** out of 4.
Short and sweet with a brutal ending
I just saw this movie today and I must say it is quite affecting, although the ending is sort of like an alarm clock jolting you awake from a nice dream. The most obvious antecedent for this movie I can think of is Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures. Both involve a violently consuming relationship between two beautiful young girls. The movie is, to me sort of like a confrontation of opposites, there's the rich, jaded girl (Tasmin) and the naive, innocent one (Mona). Tasmin represents the experienced girl who sees life as a canvas to act out her fantasies in, while Mona seems to live life more directly and literally. This creates the tension between the two and leads to the dramatic ending, which seems somewhat abrupt considering the "magical realism" of the rest of the movie. I highly recommend this movie, it is one that immerses you completely if you allow it to. The acting is exceptional, especially the leads, so natural that it doesn't seem like acting at all.
Intriguing surprise
First of all, the young leads Nathalie Press and Emily Blunt acted superbly; these newcomers are really stunning for the way they movingly played this character drama, showing every sort of emotion a human being may feel. "My summer of love" is not only a lesbian love affair between two needy and sexy teens, set in a beautiful countryside, but it's also a thoughtful portrayal of friendship, deception and obsession. In spite of a story starting as an erotic drama it finally turns into a suspenseful and powerful situation. Last but not least Paddy Considine is also up to the film brightness, rendering a man whose redemption seems to slowly fade.
Very sincere movie, with high artistic achievements
My Summer of Love is a brave, sincere film, which gives us, cinema-lovers, the hope that cinema is not dead and is not only a money-making entertainment machine whatever the cost. It looks hard into life of today, but this look is not to frighten, to scare, to scandalize - I'd call it poetic realism, in the best traditions of cinema, when its great masters were not afraid to experiment, but only strive for true presentation of their idea and of their characters. It is also a film about love, because it is done with so much love for people who follow their heart, and who value their openness and freedom of expressing themselves. Highly artistic work of it's author Pavel Pavlikovski, and also of actress Natalie Press, whom I was happy to see at the Sofia Film Fest, at the Bulgarian premiere of the film on 11 March 05.