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54
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My Summer of Love
Focus Features
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for sexuality, language and some drug use
Starring
Nathalie Press,
Emily Blunt,
Paddy Considine,
Dean Andrews,
Paul Antony-Barber,
Lynette Edwards,
and
Kathryn Sumner
This film vibrantly charts the emotional and physical hothouse effects that bloon one summer for two young women. (Focus Features)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
Foreign
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Pawel Pawlikowski
Michael Wynne
Helen Cross (novel)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Pawel Pawlikowski
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 4, 2005
Theatrical: June 17, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
86 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK |
Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film, 2005 BAFTA Awards; Best New British Feature, 2004 Edinburgh International Film Festival

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Superbly acted, movingly written, and directed with a tough-minded lyricism rarely found in today's films. A summer movie to love.

100
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
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
Premiere
Staff (Not credited)
This is as wonderfully realized an observation of female affinity as 1999’s great "The Dreamlife of Angels."

100
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Instantly captivating.

91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
Pawlikowski has made a gorgeously ambiguous film -- based upon a novel by Helen Cross -- that is blessedly hard to tag; in fact, it's a compilation of genres and moods -- comedy, romance and diabolical thriller -- and that is its core strength and freshness.

90
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
So fraught with unresolved issues of class, sexuality, and spiritual need, and so carefully observed by Pawlikowski, that it opens out like the movie's West Yorkshire countryside.

90
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
The film is a triumph of mood and implication.

90
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Two teen girls forge an explosive connection in a compelling Pawel Pawlikowski film.

90
Newsweek
David Ansen
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.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Its stars, Emily Blunt and Natalie Press, are film newcomers who give startling performances. The photography is often breathtakingly original.

90
Variety
Derek Elley
Direction, performances and lensing blend into an immensely satisfying, if almost uncategorizable, whole in Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love.

90
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Nuanced, exquisite and predictable.

90
Dallas Observer
Melissa Levine
The result is a mood movie that sweeps you into its infatuation and holds you there.

88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
An exquisite exploration into the realms of seduction, obsession, deception and disillusionment.

88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Jennie Punter
My Summer of Love may sound like the title of a hot teen flick, but it is a truly refreshing grown-up big-screen film, a rare gem in this summer of duds.

83
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
My Summer of Love, with its lush, sunlit landscapes, may occupy the opposite end of the visual spectrum, but it reinforces the sense that this director knows his way around the range of human emotion as well.

80
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
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.

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Remains highly watchable throughout, for its atmosphere and the actors.

80
The Hollywood Reporter
Ray Bennett
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.

75
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Far from earthshaking, but it's fun while it lasts.

75
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Travels so deeply into the confusions of female adolescence that you'd never know this deceptively languid British film was directed by a Polish-born man.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This isn't a coming-of-age movie so much as a movie about being of an age.

75
Chicago Tribune
Ellen Fox
It's all very mesmerizing, for them and us.

75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
The movie is enchanting yet strangely menacing, and it becomes clear that Pawlikowski is no mere love fool.

70
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
The film is emotionally and visually sustained, so it is pleasant.

70
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Slowly evolves into an oddly affecting mood piece.

70
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
A bittersweet rite-of-passage story driven by the subtle performances of newcomers Nathalie Press and Emily Blunt.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
When compared with most of what passes for honest teen drama these days, My Summer of Love is a real reprieve.

63
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Pawlikowski's heart may be with Mona, but his art is closer to Tamsin. He luxuriates in his sensibility without delivering a movie that pays off in originality or insight.

63
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
At its most interesting, the movie offers us the sight of people desperately embracing faith in the hopes it will pull them through.

63
USA Today
Claudia Puig
An intriguing, if meandering, escape from the summer blockbusters.


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