My Summer of Love
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Movie Reviews of My Summer of Love
Movie Review: an ordinary story of love
Summary: 4 Stars
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I have not read the book, just saw the movie. I was dissappointed after watching it, then thinking about it, I realized that in any kind of relationship you can not blame one side completely. I think, Tamsin had feelings for Mona but she was just as lost as Mona was, in a different way maybe. She wanted to rebel against her family but she was too coward to do so...In the end, she learnt a lesson, if you make a promise, you have to be strong enough to stand behind your word..Also, by letting her go in the last scene, Mona showed that coward people like Tomsin did not deserve your hate, you just feel sorry for them and let them live with it.
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Movie Review: Slight but enjoyable
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bottom Line:
Perhaps now best known as the film in which Emily Blunt removed her top, My Summer of Love is a fairly slight but interesting motion picture about an uneven friendship between two girls; it could easily be argued that much more was made of a similar theme in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, but that doesn't change the fact that this film bears viewing on its own terms.
3/4
Movie Review: Not worth 5 stars, but each to their own
Summary: 3 Stars
Personally, I thought My Summer Of Love was worth 4 stars, right up until the ending. The finale was a major let down for me, and as a result, it's only getting a 3 star review.
I picked this up, as it was in a cheap deal, and it had been on my wishlist for a while. It was cheap, and it sounded pretty good, so what is there to go wrong?
Set in a Yorkshire village, we observe two 16 year old girls, growing into their bodies and their sexuality and all that nonsense. Instantly, there are major differences between them - one is riding a horse, the other is riding a motorcycle without an engine. They always say opposites attract, and the two girls decide to hang out when they're bored.
Tamsin is the slightly upperclass one, kicked out of boarding school, with an accent, perfect figure, perfect hair, perfect skin etc. Portrayed brilliantly by Emily Blunt (a rising star if there ever was one), she portrays Tamsin with the right amount of manipulativeness to make the viewers still like her.
Mona is the quiet girl, who knows not a lot about fashion, lives with her ex-jailbird, now born again Christian, riding an engine-less motorcycle around town. She lives above a pub, but her brother has poured all the alcohol down the sink, and it's now a place of worship.
Their friendship moves from hanging out together because they're bored, to an almost sisterly companionship, to a proper full on relationship. But all the time you get the impression Tamsin's just stringing Mona along, until something better appears. There's lots of shots of the girls hanging out together, and discovering each other - in more ways than one, for the males, there's some topless shots.
Nathalie Press, who plays Mona, is the shining star in this movie. Although initially she reminded me of Sissy Spacek (her whole face structure is sharper though), she was amazing as the smitten kitten Mona. When her young heart was shattered into a million pieces, the audience feels along with her at the same time, and many a teenager will emphasise with her.
I thought the whole Christian subplot was slightly unnecessary, especially the re-enactment of the crucifixion, and although it's only in short sharp bursts, it still draws the viewers' attention away from the relationship developing on screen.
My Summer of Love is an excellent little film (and all I can say, is roll on summer), and although the ending was a major disappointment, I would watch it again, but perhaps skip the Christian bits. Not necessary. But the rest of the film is well worth seeing.
Movie Review: Not completely unenjoyable but Heavenly Creatures did it better
Summary: 3 Stars
When it comes to stories of love, it doesn't get any more intense than teenagers involved a summer romance. Mona (Nathalie Press) a young Yorkshire local is a sprightly, but naive, small town girl who lives in a run down pub with her troubled brother Phil (Paddy Considine) a recent Born Again Christian.While on her summer break Mona coasts the towns outskirts on her ten quid, motor-less step-through. When Mona crosses paths with a young upper-class girl, Tamsin (Emily Blunt) on one of her 'rides' they instantly form a fascination with each other.Tamsin is sexy and brash with a confidence that seems to bely her years. Full of culture and mystery she proceeds to spend most of her time with Mona opening up a world that previously had not existed for the young local girl.As they chat about Nietzsche, listen to Edith Piaf, take magic mushrooms and generally run a mock in the village, the girls form an intense bond that soon turns turns into a classic summer romance. However trouble is brewing as Mona's brother Phil learns of their relationship. Phil sees Mona's love for Tamsin as a illness that needs to be cured by the hand of god. In an interesting twist his attempts to warn Tamsin away from Mona sees his true nature exposed.My Summer of Love builds slowly and surely to it's climax through the relationship of Tamsin and Mona. And although it can be described as a coming of age film the story culminates in a clash of culture, family and deception that sees any sort of "sweet summer love" cliché blown out of the water. Press and Blunt at times seem a little out of depth with their characters, although this doesn't take away from what is an interesting skew on the usual young love tale.Considine is perfectly unbalanced as the ex-con who preaches the word of god with the same vengeance that he once drank and fought. Summer of Love may lack the depth and chemistry of films such as Heavenly Creatures however it also lacks much of the darkness, making it entertaining albeit unchallenging cinema.Movie Review: Imagine More Love
Summary: 3 Stars
By most reasonable measures, this film could have grabbed more attention. It could have been better for viewers if the plot wasn't so simply bland throughout most the movie. This movie was actually about two girls' boredom during their summer. It goes without saying that the plot wouldn't be filled with the non-stop action that many attention deficit movie-goers crave.
The movie is based around a local small town girl named Mona who is drawn in a preppy girl's world. Both girls are bored during their summer. At times it's boredom that brings out the best in our imaginations. Unforunately, boredom didn't bring out the best in the screenwriters for this movie.
There is very little violence and nudity in the film. The characters (the two girls) have brief clashes with the overly religious brother of Mona, creating a half charged movie of fearing sexual intrigue and God.
You've probably seen low budget movies before. Nothing in this movie will make you beg for a sequel. However, it might make you beg for a writer's imagination to be rediscovered.