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My Summer of Love

My Summer of Love

Drama · Romance · 2005

In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. To seal their friendship, Mona introduces Tamsin to her born-again Christian brother and helps her spy on her adulterous father. Bound together by their secrets, the two girls see their friendship deepen and enter into dangerous waters.

Movie details

My Summer of Love

“The most dangerous thing to want is more.”

2005 Drama · Romance 1h 27m

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TMDB

6.2 / 10

Community rating

In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. To seal their friendship, Mona introduces Tamsin to her born-again Christian brother and helps her spy on her adulterous father. Bound together by their secrets, the two girls see their friendship deepen and enter into dangerous waters.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Paweł Pawlikowski

Written by

Michael Wynne · Paweł Pawlikowski

Natalie Press

Natalie Press

Mona

Emily Blunt

Emily Blunt

Tamsin

Paddy Considine

Paddy Considine

Phil

Dean Andrews

Dean Andrews

Ricky

Michelle Byrne

Michelle Byrne

Ricky's Wife

Paul Antony-Barber

Paul Antony-Barber

Tamsin's Father

Lynette Edwards

Lynette Edwards

Tamsin's Mother

Court is in session

Put My Summer of Love on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.