A summer to remember.My Summer of Love * Directed by Paul Pavlikovsky * Written by Pavlikovsky, based on the novel by Helen Cross Helen Cross is an English author. She was born in 1967 and brought up in East Yorkshire. Her first novel, My Summer of Love, was published in 2001 and was the winner of a Betty Trask Award in 2002. * Nathalie Press, Emily Blunt, Paddy Considine Patrick "Paddy" Considine (born 5 September, 1973) is an English actor, director, screenwriter and frequent collaborator with Shane Meadows. To international audiences, he may be more familiar for his roles in In America, The Bourne Ultimatum and Hot Fuzz * Focus Features Anyone smitten with the obsessive love Obsessive love is a form of love where one person is emotionally obsessed with another. What is obsessive love? Forward and Buck believe that rejection is the trigger of obsessive love. at the center of Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures will go bananas over My Summer of Love, a quasi-British take on a similar lesbian teen affair. The class conflict between these lovers might have turned the film into a flat reworking of an overdone o·ver·done v. Past participle of overdo. Adj. 1. overdone - represented as greater than is true or reasonable; "an exaggerated opinion of oneself" exaggerated, overstated British story line, but director Paul Pavlikovsky develops the characters so fully that the movie transcends cliche. Uninhibited uninhibited /un·in·hib·it·ed/ (un?in-hib´i-ted) free from usual constraints; not subject to normal inhibitory mechanisms. Mona (Nathalie Press) is a high-energy workingclass kid who lives above the pub her late parents ran in a bleak West York West York may refer to one of these places:
n. Chiefly British See county town. Noun 1. shire town - the town or city that is the seat of government for a shire county town . An open book, she is completely unpretentious--something that cannot be said about gorgeous, rebellious Tamsin (Emily Blunt). The two meet one day on a country road--Mona on a bike, Tamsin on a horse--and quickly develop an obsessive friendship. One day they kiss, then become inseparable lovers. As the film's title suggests, however, theirs is a summer fling. The end of the season brings on a shocking, visceral climax. Yet Pavlikovsky leaves us on a hopeful note. In a brilliant stroke, he adds a third party, Mona's born-again ex-con brother, Phil (Paddy Considine). His Bible-thumping presence further defines the girls. Tamsin fakes a seduction on the newly celibate Phil in order to expose him as a fraud, and we begin to see the extent of her imbalance. In response, Phil's physically abusive nature resurfaces. When Mona later commits a violent act, we recognize the similar chemistry of brother and sister. Press and Blunt are hot; they've already won accolades. And the film won the British Academy award for Best British Film of the Year, beating Vera Drake and the third Harry Potter film. My Summer of Love is a crossover movie; Free-spirited in their liaison, Mona and Tamsin smooch everywhere, unafraid of the provincial locals. The lesbian relationship is central but incidental, and that is a plus for us all. |
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