Rent My Summer of Love (2004)
3.3 of 5 from 220 ratings
1h 23min
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- Synopsis:
- Mona (Natalie Press) has just got hold of a brilliant moped that only cost a tenner. No engine but still dirt-cheap. She lives with her brother, Phil (Paddy Considine) who used to run a pub before he found God and poured away all the booze. Tamsin (Emily Blunt) is rich, spoilt and trying to livea life of seductive decadence.They meet on the moors, above their quiet Yorkshire village and begin an intense, unlikely friendship.Tamsin and Mona want to escape their lives, but Phil wants to save them and save everybody else. Mona wants the old, dangerous, Phil back; the brother that she loved. Tamsin wants to see what it takes to break him...
- Actors:
- Natalie Press, Emily Blunt, Paddy Considine, Dean Andrews, Michelle Byrne, Paul Antony-Barber, Lynette Edwards, Kathryn Sumner
- Directors:
- Pawel Pawlikowski
- Writers:
- Helen Cross, Pawel Pawlikowski
- Studio:
- Universal Pictures
- Genres:
- Drama, Lesbian & Gay
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Reviews (6) of My Summer of Love
Two girls and no guy - My Summer of Love review by Kurtz
The story of an intense friendship between two teenage girls during a surprisingly sunny English summer in what looks like Yorkshire. Natalie Press is excellent as the downtrodden Mona who gets a glimpse of what life could hold beyond the valley she lives in, while Emily Blunt’s plummy stirrer seems more of a stretch at times but is always watchable as she’s the one with all the ideas.
Yes, it’s a sexual relationship, but the film is never salacious and these scenes are sensitively done by director Pawlikowski, who shows himself worthy of moving into Shane Meadows territory- no higher praise than that! Speaking of Meadows, solid support in this film from Paddy Considine as the unlikeliest born-again Christian you ever did see.
3 out of 4 members found this review helpful.
Romantic Drama - My Summer of Love review by JD
Poor girl seduced by rich girl for summer holiday of love. Not much of a plot and not much drama come to that. There is not much to recommend this film unless you like the idea of lesbian love in a rural Yorkshire village. I don't think it deserved to be best British Film which is why I was swayed to ordering it.
1 out of 4 members found this review helpful.
Interesting Romance Story - My Summer of Love review by GI
A coming-of-age and sexual awakening tale that involves obsession and passion set during a balmy Yorkshire summer. Mona (Natalie Press) is a bored, lonely teenager who lives with her elder brother Phil (Paddy Considine), a reformed convict who has turned to religion. One day she meets the equally bored but cynical and narcissistic Tamsin (Emily Blunt), a spoiled rich girl who lives in a nearby large manor house. They strike up an unlikely friendship which soon turns sexual. But Mona is unprepared for both the reaction of Phil to this relationship and Tamsin's own agenda. This is a slow burning tale and has a mystical, hazy atmosphere to it as the two young women spend time in the local forests and engage in various antics against those they see as their enemies. There's a tension that builds in the narrative giving the film a sense of a crisis building and certainly the latent violence in Phil is always there simmering away. But the complexity of character especially in Tamsin is the centre of this story and Emily Blunt is superb here in what is her breakout film role. A rather delightful film, a romance but one with some added twists and complexity that is well worth checking out if you've never seen it.
1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.