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• My Summer Of Love [2004]

  Barnaby Walter 23 July 2008

  

  Acted out against the colourful backdrop of dreamy Yorkshire, My Summer of Love is nothing less than a British gem. Even though the plot centres around a sexual relationship between two girls, Mona and Tamsin, the film manages not to carry the "gay movie" label, nor does it exploit or patronise the topic of same sex relationships.
  Mona is a working class school girl living in her brother's pub. Since being released from prison, her brother Phil adopted born-again Christianity, realising he would rather spend his time teaching the love of God than selling booze at a bar. Frustrated and uncomfortable with the way her life is going, Mona strikes up an unlikely friendship with upper middle class, privately educated Tamsin (Emily Blunt). Their friendship develops into romance, with Tamsin introducing Mona to the joys of being oneself.
  Throughout the film Paddy Considine helps further his reputation as one of the best British actors currently on screen, mixing his religion-obsessed role with gritty belief and an underlying menace that proves even more disturbing than Emily Blunt's manipulative Tamsin. However, this is not to shout down the performances of both Blunt and newcomer Natalie Press. Honest, vulnorable pain courses through Press's performance as her character, Mona, slowly realises how her summer of love has blinded her from the not-so-rosy reality.
  Director Pavlikovsky films his sharp-edged love story with a fluent, mesmerising style that leaves an impression on you even more than the superb acting talent. The film could be accused of loosing it's way in mid flow, making the narrative route all the more uncertain. After watching the final scene, however, this path is revealed. You realise this is not a simple, passionate love story. It is a calculated study of cruelty, human nature and cold, hard-nosed desire.

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. The most dangerous thing to want is more. Mona (Natalie Press) has just got hold of a brilliant moped that only cost a tenner. No engine but still dirt-cheap. She lives with her brother, Phil (Paddy Considine) who used to run a pub before he found God and poured away all the booze. Tamsin (Emily Blunt) is rich, spoilt and trying to live a life of seductive decadence. They meet on the moors, above their quiet Yorkshire village and begin an intense, unlikely friendship.Tamsin and Mona want to escape their lives, but Phil wants to save them and save everybody else. Mona wants the old, dangerous, Phil back; the brother that she loved. Tamsin wants to see what it takes to break him... Based on the novel by acclaimed author, Helen Cross. Actors Natalie Press, Emily Blunt, Paddy Considine & Dean Andrews Director Paul Pavlikovsky Certificate 15 years and over Year 2004 Screen Widescreen 16:9 Anamorphic Languages English - Dolby Digital (2.0) Stereo Duration 1 hour and 13 minutes (approx) Region Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players.

British coming-of-age drama, set in a Yorkshire mining town during the 1970s, about two young girls from different social backgrounds who become friends. Tomboy Mona (Nathalie Press) lives with her God-fearing ex-alcoholic brother Phil (Paddy Considine) and dreams of fixing up an old moped she has bought for only ten pounds. Spoilt rich kid Tamsin (Emily Blunt) wants to escape from her dreary surroundings as well, and when the two girls meet up on the Yorkshire moors, they begin an intense, emotional friendship. When Tamsin discovers that Mona wants to see Phil back the way he was before he found God, she decides to do whatever she can to make him revert, with tragic consequences.