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My Summer of Love

2004

Pawel Pawlikowski

Natalie Press, Emily Blunt, Paddy Considine, Dean Andrews ...

6.2

1,343

Romance. Drama In the dry heat of a Yorkshire summer, two 16-year-old girls meet and become friends, despite the obvious differences in their backgrounds (Mona is local, working-class, clever and restless; Tamsin moneyed, well-educated and cynical), and the increasingly disturbing presence of Mona's older brother Phil, a born-again Fundamentalist Christian, singlemindedly intent on salvation at any cost.

	Author	Review
United States	Derek Elley Variety	"Direction, performances and lensing blend into an immensely satisfying, if almost uncategorizable, whole."	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The film is a triumph of mood and implication. Mr. Pawlikowski (...) makes the games and poses of adolescent infatuation feel grand and unsettling"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This isn't a coming-of-age movie so much as a movie about being of an age (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Intimacy is a difficult thing to show on screen (...) But Nathalie Press and Emily Blunt hang out with freshness and spontaneity, helped by Pawlikowski's improvisatory shooting methods and smart dialogue"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"But for all its melodramatic excesses, 'My Summer' remains highly watchable throughout, for its atmosphere and the actors, specially Considine and Press"	POS
United States	Ruthe Stein SFGATE	"[Pawlikowski] packs so much into 'My Summer of Love' you feel you've spent a season with these intriguing characters instead of a mere 84 minutes."	POS

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