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Review: My Summer of Love. By Kristin M. Jones in the May-June 2005 Issue. “If you leave me, I'll kill you,” two teenage beauties whisper to each other as they kiss in front of a blazing fire, their silhouetted profiles intersecting like strange flowers. In Pawel Pawlikowski's impressionistic, radiant, and psychologically feverish romance ...
Synopsis. On a hot sunny summer day in rural Yorkshire, England, Mona (Natalie Press) is a young teenage girl pushing her broken-down motorbike down a hill. While Mona rests in the grass off the road, another teenage girl named Tamsin (Emily Blunt) happens by. She is riding on horseback and chances upon Mona.
Permalink. 8/10. No cliché. paul2001sw-1 10 November 2004. Pavel Pavlikovski directed the bleak, austere 'Last Resort', and was sacked from 'Sylvia' on grounds of having an insufficiently commercial sensitivity. Now he had made 'My Summer of Love', a nicely observed tale of a teenage lesbian romance.
Jun 17, 2005 · Paweł Pawlikowski. Director, Screenplay. Helen Cross. Novel. Michael Wynne. Writer. In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. To seal their friendship, Mona introduces Tamsin to her born-again Christian brother and helps her spy on her adulterous father. Bound together by their secrets, the two ...
Feb 7, 2011 · As the title implies this movie is a love story that takes place over the course of one summer. The hot, languid summer months pass slowly as love is born, burns brightly, but then must face the coming chill of Autumn. Natalie Press stars as Mona, a teenaged orphan living in Yorkshire England.
May 5, 2005 · 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 ...
My Summer Of Love remains firmly rooted with Mona, since she drives the story. There are some issues involving deceit, lies, mockery and tempers erupting, but since Pawlikowski ensures that we're tightly reined in, we can believe what we are told. The visual style is dreamlike, with a lazy colour scheme, and carefully eroticised camerawork ...
