My Summer of Love (2004)

Foreign / Drama / Romance

1 hr. 23 min.

A hot summer in Yorkshire, as two girls from different backgrounds develop an intense friendship, much to the chagrin of the surrounding adults.

Rated R for sexuality, language and some drug use

Directed by: Pawel Pawlikowski

Starring: Nathalie Press, Emily Blunt, Paddy Considine, Dean Andrews

Theatrical Release Date: 6/17/2005

Release Type: Limited

U.S. Box Office: $992,238

Video/DVD Release Date: 10/04/2005

Distributor: Focus Features

Country: UK

Language: English

Offsite: IMDB | Official Site

CRITIC	RATING	QUOTE
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert	7	I'm not sure if the movie has a point. I'm not sure it needs one.
Chicago Tribune Ellen Fox	7	...mesmerizing...
E!	8	Ultimately, it's more about mood than the story, but boy, this is one good mood.
New York Post V. A. Musetto	7	...far from earthshaking, but it's fun while it lasts.
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh	7	...brilliantly evokes the sleepy, slightly unreal atmosphere of teenage summers that seem to stretch endlessly into the future.
Reel Kim Morgan	8	Swoony, ethereal, and, finally, toxic, My Summer of Love is a film with a metaphorical darkness that's heightened not by shadows, but by beautiful, unsettling light.
Slant Magazine Ed Gonzalez	5	...isn't so much heavy-handed as it is empty-handed.
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman	10	...a startling coming-of-age drama...
New York Times A. O. Scott	9	...lovely...
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan	9	...exceptional...
People Leah Rozen	8	Flawlessly observed...
Village Voice Michael Atkinson	7	...an oddly affecting mood piece about lost girl–ness...
Onion AV Club Keith Phipps	7	With great care and disarming evenhandedness, Pawlikowski eases into some revelations about the freedoms of youth, the harm that can be done in the spirit of that freedom, and the escape hatch of wealth.
Premiere	9	...as wonderfully realized an observation of female affinity as 1999's great The Dreamlife of Angels.
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt	9	Superbly acted, movingly written, and directed with a tough-minded lyricism rarely found in today's films.

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ALL AVERAGE CRITIC RATING	7.8
AVERAGE USER RATING (2 ratings)	6.0

USER REVIEWS:

dack 5

It's always a really big problem when the most interesting character is an inanimate object, in this case the stellar English country mansion. Beautiful to look at for the most part, but feels almost completely empty.