Synopsis
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 girls see their friendship deepen and enter into dangerous waters.
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Cast
- Natalie PressMona
- Emily BluntTamsin
- Paddy ConsidinePhil
- Dean AndrewsRicky
- Michelle ByrneRicky's Wife
- Paul Antony-BarberTamsin's Father
- Lynette EdwardsTamsin's Mother
- Kathryn SumnerSadie
Recommendations
- 100
Entertainment Weekly
Pawlikowski has made a romance that becomes a horror movie in which love, more than anything around it, is a delusionary fever to fear. - 100
Christian Science Monitor
Superbly acted, movingly written, and directed with a tough-minded lyricism rarely found in today's films. A summer movie to love. - 90
Newsweek
Press and Blunt are major discoveries: in this sly and wonderfully atmospheric gem, they conjure up the role-playing raptures of youth with perfect poetic pitch. - 90
Salon
Its stars, Emily Blunt and Natalie Press, are film newcomers who give startling performances. The photography is often breathtakingly original. - 90
Variety
Direction, performances and lensing blend into an immensely satisfying, if almost uncategorizable, whole in Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love. - 90
The New York Times
The film is a triumph of mood and implication. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Some of the metaphors are a bit too literal but the director largely succeeds with his story and the surprises are convincing. Best of all the film has a terrific sense of humor and the young actresses exploit it delightfully. - 80
The A.V. Club
Pawlikowski's off-balance compositions and affection for odd close-ups suggest the influence of Wong Kar-Wai, but the film's low-key observational spirit owes as much to Mike Leigh.
