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My Summer of Love

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My Summer of Love (2005)

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Reviews Counted:86

Fresh:79

Rotten:7

Average Rating:7.5/10

Consensus: My Summer of Love is a moody, bittersweet love story featuring outstanding performances from the leads.

Runtime: 87 mins

Genre: Romance

Synopsis: My Summer of Love is this summer's most intoxicating and intriguing romance. From Pawel Pawlikowski, the award-winning director of "Last Resort", comes a tale of obsession and deception, and the... My Summer of Love is this summer's most intoxicating and intriguing romance. From Pawel Pawlikowski, the award-winning director of "Last Resort", comes a tale of obsession and deception, and the struggle for love and faith in a world where both seem impossible. 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 Features [More]

Starring: Paddy Considine, Natalie Press, Emily Blunt

Starring: Paddy Considine, Natalie Press, Emily Blunt

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Screenwriter: Michael Wynne, Pawel Pawlikowski
Producer: Tanya Seghatchian, Chris Collins
Studio: Focus Features

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11/23/04
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

A startling rite-of-passage drama from Polish-born writer-helmer Pawel Pawlikowski.

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Derek Elley
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The film reaches a point of high drama, for sure, but when Edith Piaf's voice rises over the final minutes, the gothic climax curls into a wicked grin.

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06/05/08
Robert Davis
Robert Davis
Paste Magazine

...there's little doubt that the film is occasionally just a little too uneventful for its own good.

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03/19/08
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09/26/05
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Pawlikowski does such a great job of establishing a sense of youthful carelessness that we're sucked into Mona's summer adventure.

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08/19/05
Robert W. Butler
Robert W. Butler
Kansas City Star

A movie you seem to watch through translucent eyelids...

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08/05/05
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Torrid eroticism tinged by a sense of menace . . . circles around its complex, conflicted characters before plunging into their dark feelings and hidden half-truths.

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07/21/05
Brian Gibson
Brian Gibson
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Pawel Pawlikowski's open and poetic new film proves without a shadow of a doubt that his stunning Last Resort from 2000 was no fluke.

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07/21/05
David N. Butterworth
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Engaging arthouse coming-of-age drama.

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07/16/05
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A perfectly diverting, perfectly forgettable summer fling.

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07/15/05
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

Slight and predictable at its core.

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07/14/05
Steve Schneider
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Orlando Weekly
 
 
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