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My Summer of Love
Pawel Pawlikowski / UK 2004 / 86 min / 35 mm
With: Nathalie Press (Mona), Emily Blunt
(Tamsin), Paddy Considine (Phil), Kathryn Sumner (Sadie)
Turku: Sun Nov 20 at 17.00 / Kino Thalia, sali 1
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Helsinki: Sun Nov 27 at 13.00 / Orion
The most dangerous thing is to want more
My Summer of Love, based on the novel by Helen
Cross, is an engaging story
about a relationship between two girls from totally different worlds. Mona
(Nathalie Press) lives with her brother Phil (Paddy
Considine, In America and 24
Hour Party People), an ex-con who's found religion. The days are
filled with Phil's religious meetings and attempts to save everyone. Mona
misses her old, free spirit brother and longs for some substance to her
boring life.
One day Mona meets Tamsin (Emily Blunt), who's vacationing in her parents'
great mansion. The sophisticated Tamsin invites Mona for a visit and offers
her the possibility to live in luxury. The girls embark on a passionate
relationship, in which the over-the-top and bohemian ideas of the spoiled
Tamsin cater to Mona's dreams of a better life. All roads appear open to
Mona, but happiness isn't that simple. Phil starts to suspect the relationship
between the girls and wants to bring Mona back to order. The relationship
between the two siblings goes awry and finally breaks down altogether when
Phil tries to separate the girls from each other. Mona starts clinging
on Tamsin, which stresses their relationship as well.
Although the actresses playing Tamsin and Mona are first-timers in full-length
features, their portrayal is convincing. The theme of My
Summer of Love resembles that of Peter Jackson's cult movie Heavenly
Creatures (1994).
Both are about an all-conquering relationship, trust and the desire to
change one's own life. But what if that, which is true for one, is only
a privileged game to the other?
NOTE!
No subtitles.
European
Film Academy has nominated
My Summer of Love for best European Film
2005. Other nominations
are best director (Pavel Pawlikowski), best actress (Natalie Press) and best
cinematographer (Ryszard Lenczewski). The European Film Awards will be
celebrated in Berlin on December 3.
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Text by
Sari Miettinen
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