My Summer of Love (2004)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Pawel Pawlikowski

Writers:

Helen Cross (novel)
Pawel Pawlikowski (written by) ...
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Release Date:

5 November 2004 (UK)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

The most dangerous thing to want is more.

Plot:

In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona (Press) meets the exotic, pampered Tasmin (Blunt). Over the summer season, the two young women discover they have much to teach one another, and much to explore together.

Plot Keywords:

Summer | Motorcycle | Lesbian Scene | Brother Sister Relationship | Cello

Awards:

8 wins & 19 nominations

Cast

Natalie Press	...	Mona
Emily Blunt	...	Tamsin
Paddy Considine	...	Phil
Dean Andrews	...	Ricky
Michelle Byrne	...	Ricky's Wife
Paul Antony-Barber	...	Tamsin's Father
Lynette Edwards	...	Tamsin's Mother
Kathryn Sumner	...	Sadie

Directed by
Pawel Pawlikowski

Writing credits
Helen Cross		(novel)
Pawel Pawlikowski		written by &
Michael Wynne		collaborating writer

Produced by
Chris Auty	....	executive producer
Chris Collins	....	producer (as Christopher Collins)
Keith Evans	....	executive producer
Emma Hayter	....	executive producer
Joshua Neale	....	assistant producer
Tanya Seghatchian	....	producer
David M. Thompson	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Alison Goldfrapp
Will Gregory

Cinematography by
Ryszard Lenczewski		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
David Charap

Casting by
Buffy Hall

Production Design by
John Stevenson

Art Direction by
Netty Chapman

Costume Design by
Julian Day

Makeup Department
Tara McDonald	....	hair stylist
Tara McDonald	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Charlotte Ashby	....	production manager
Emma Fowler	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Vicki Allen	....	third assistant director (as Vicky Allen)
Michael Elliott	....	first assistant director (as Mike Elliot)
Melanie Heseltine	....	assistant director
Steve Newton	....	first assistant director
Olivia Peniston-Bird	....	second assistant director
Chris Stoaling	....	second assistant director
Paula Turnbull	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Katie Buckley	....	stand-by art director
Peter Cooper	....	property master
Katrina Dunn	....	art department assistant
Arwel Evans	....	set dresser
Adrian Platt	....	prop hand
Hannah Spice	....	stand-by art director
Chris Tipper	....	set dresser
Duncan Wheeler	....	production buyer

Sound Department
Stuart Bagshaw	....	foley assistant
Gianluca Buttari	....	foley editor
Dan Dewsnap	....	boom operator
Simon Gershon	....	supervising sound editor
Mike Grimes	....	sound effects editor
Stewart Henderson	....	dialogue editor
Dan Johnson	....	foley dubbing mixer
Melissa Lake	....	foley artist
Ben Meechan	....	sound effects editor
Patrick Oldacre	....	sound maintenance
Marcus Oliver	....	assistant dubbing mixer
John Pearson	....	sound recordist
Matthew Skelding	....	adr recordist
Barnaby Smyth	....	foley recordist
Andrew Stirk	....	dubbing mixer
Jason Swanscott	....	foley artist
David Turner	....	sound technical coordinator
Michele Woods	....	adr recordist

Special Effects by
Ian Rowley	....	special effects

Stunts
Ruth Jenkins	....	stunt performer
Andy Smart	....	stunt coordinator
Rod Woodruff	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
Susie Allnutt	....	still photographer (as Susan Allnut)
Richard Bevan	....	focus puller
Lawrence Carter	....	rigger
Sara Deane	....	clapper loader
Glyn Fielding	....	grip
Tim Fleming	....	focus puller
Mike Gibson	....	electrician
Ben Horsefield	....	electrician
Sam Horsfield	....	electrician
Carl Hudson	....	focus puller
Wayne Mansell	....	electrician
Jake Marcuson	....	focus puller
Simon Marsh	....	electrician
Joe McLean	....	electrician
Dave Moss	....	grip
David Scott	....	additional photographer
John Welsh	....	electrician
Jon White	....	gaffer

Casting Department
Vanessa Baker	....	adr voice casting
Brendan Donnison	....	adr voice casting
Madira Seecoomer	....	additional casting (as Nadira Seecoomar)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Shahida Day	....	wardrobe supervisor (as Shaida Day)
Laura Johnson	....	wardrobe supervisor

Editorial Department
Simon Brook	....	on-line editor
Trevor Brown	....	colorist
Graeme Holmes	....	assistant editor
Dan Preston	....	assistant on-line editor

Other crew
Gary Barnes	....	location manager
Imogen Bell	....	production coordinator
Sue Clark	....	animal handler
Julie Clyne	....	paramedic
Lee Clyne	....	paramedic
David Colenutt	....	rushes runner
Jonathan Davies	....	assistant location manager
Sarah Jane Facer	....	legal services: Lee and Thompson
Jeremy Gawade	....	legal services: Lee and Thompson
Matthew Grey	....	production runner
Melanie Heseltine	....	production runner
Ella Lister	....	production assistant
Patrick Malone	....	project coordinator
Sharon Menzies	....	business affairs executive: Baker Street Media Finance
Joe Oppenheimer	....	development executive: BBC Films
Andy Ordonez	....	business affairs executive: The Film Consortium
Nicki Parfitt	....	legal services
Chris Payne	....	epk director
Neil Peplow	....	head of production: The Film Consortium
Steve Perrin	....	unit security: All Safe Securities
Matthew Sanders	....	unit publicist
Livy Sandler	....	business affairs executive: BBC Films
Tracey Scoffield	....	head of development: BBC Films
Justin Anderson Smith	....	production executive: The Film Consortium (as Justin Smith)
Rachel Quigley Smith	....	production accountant
Michael Wood	....	production executive: BBC Films

Production Companies

• Apocalypso Pictures
• BBC Films
• Baker Street
• Film Consortium
• Take Partnership
• UK Film Council

Distributors

• A-Film Distribution (2005) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Alfa Films (2006) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Bazuca Films (2007) (Chile) (theatrical)
• EuroVideo (2006) (Germany) (DVD)
• FS Film Oy (2007) (Finland) (DVD)
• Fandango (2005) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Festive Films (2006) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Filmtrade (2005) (Greece) (theatrical)
• Focus Features (2005) (USA) (theatrical)
• Frenetic Films (2005) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Intersonic (2005) (Czech Republic) (theatrical)
• TFM Distribution (2005) (France) (theatrical)
• Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (2006) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (2006) (Argentina) (VHS)

Other Companies

• AON/Albert G. Ruben Insurance Services  insurance (as AON.Albert G. Ruben)
• All Safe Securities  unit security
• Apoex Car Hire  production vehicles
• Audiolink Radio Communications  walkie talkies
• CC Lab  title design
• Carter Rigging  rigging equipment
• Film & TV Services  unit vehicles
• Film Finance  completion guarantor
• Ice Films  camera equipment
• Kodak  filmed on
• Lee & Thompson  legal services (as Lee and Thompson)
• McDonald and Rutter  publicity
• St. Anne's Post  color grading
• Swiss Effects  negative transfer
• Technicolor  processing and prints
• Unit Base Facilities  unit catering
• V.F.G.  lighting equipment (as VFG)
• Videosonics Cinema Sound  sound post-production
• Videosonics Cinema Sound  sound re-recording

MPAA:

Rated R for sexuality, language and some drug use.

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Czech Republic:15 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Zurich) | Iceland:16 | Brazil:16 | Argentina:16 | Hungary:14 | Malaysia:(Banned) | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Finland:K-11 | Portugal:M/16 | Chile:14 | New Zealand:R16 | Australia:MA | Ireland:18 | Netherlands:MG6 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R | Germany:12 | Italy:VM14 | Singapore:R21 | Norway:11

Filming Locations:

Cornholme, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Company:

Apocalypso Pictures

Trivia:

Marcel Cerdan, the boxer, wasn't Edith's husband. He was her lover and the love of her live. He died in a plane crash and she never recovered from his death. Edith Piaf never killed anyone (that we know of) and certainly did not kill anyone with a fork.

Quotes:

Tamsin: What's he making?
Mona: A cross. He's putting it up at the top of the hill to cleanse the valley of evil.

Movie Connections:

Featured in 2006 Glitter Awards (2006) (V)

Soundtrack:

La Foule

No cliché

Pavel Pavlikovski directed the bleak, austere 'Last Resort', and was sacked from 'Sylvia' on grounds of having an insufficiently commercial sensitivity.

Now he had made 'My Summer of Love', a nicely observed tale of a teenage lesbian romance. As in 'Last Resort', Russian-born Pavlikovski paints an enticingly skewed picture of Britain that rings true in spite of its aberrence; and gets good performances out of his cast, especially Paddy Considine as the brother of one of the girls, who could certainly have used more screen-time, though his co-stars Nathalie Press and Emily Blunt are also good. The film steers clear of cliché, and has some dryly funny dialogue, but what it lacks is a sense of time as a continuum: it feels like a semi-random sampling of its characters' lives, and although there is a clear plot it's hidden in the background, apparent only later. In some ways, this is also true to life, but it also means that the film remains low-key right up to the moment of its suddenly dramatic conclusion. Pavlikovski also seems surprisingly keen on static location shots (before we see the characters inside of a house, we always see the house from outside),

which jars slightly given the film's general artistic merits. Distinctive, and well-worth watching, 'My Summer of Love' isn't quite a great film; but it is an interesting effort from a director committed to representing life in the ways that Hollywood never does.