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This decade’s Heavenly Creatures without the murder and with a slightly toned down fantasy but with many other elements intact.  Set in Yorkshire and with a definite claustrophobic atmosphere, My Summer of Love is enjoyable, especially for the accomplished direction of resident Brit Pawel Pawlikowski, the themes which are sufficiently meaty to sustain the film and the acting by the two lead girls and by Paddy Considine as the god fearing brother.  Emily Blunt as Tamsin is a great find and is undoubtedly headed for fame as the latest in a long line of classy English beauties.  And she can act too!  Even more impressive for me was Natalie Press as Mona, the lower class girl.  She has a beautiful open look and manages to throw away lines wonderfully.  This is a powerhouse performance of naturalness.

While I wouldn’t rate this the best film ever and perhaps Peter Jackson’s work really challenged us more as viewers, this has a lot of talent in it and was a good watch.

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