My Summer of Love - The Story of a Film
Pawel Pawlikowski's acclaimed My Summer Of Love won the Alexander Korda Award for the outstanding British film of the year at the 2005 British Academy Film Awards.
Released in October 2004 as a follow-up to Pawlikowski's previous feature, Last Resort, it also won the prestigious Michael Powell Award for Best British Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and went on to premiere internationally at the Toronto Film Festival where Focus Features picked it up for US distribution.
Set in contemporary Yorkshire, it charts the relationship that blooms one hot summer between two very different 16-year-old girls, Mona (Natalie Press) and Tamsin (Emily Blunt).
Mona is working class, rebellious, bored with life and with the newfound religious convictions of her ex-con brother Phil (Paddy Considine). Tamsin is well educated, spoiled and cynical. Each girl is wary of each other's differences when they first meet, but this coolness soon melts into mutual fascination and attraction. Adding further volatility to the summer heat is Phil, who tries to impose his new found religious fervour upon his sister Mona.
Film magazine Screen International called My Summer Of Love a 'freewheeling evocation of the emotional neediness and spiritual emptiness that briefly bind the girls to each other.'
Released in October 2004 as a follow-up to Pawlikowski's previous feature, Last Resort, it also won the prestigious Michael Powell Award for Best British Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and went on to premiere internationally at the Toronto Film Festival where Focus Features picked it up for US distribution.
Set in contemporary Yorkshire, it charts the relationship that blooms one hot summer between two very different 16-year-old girls, Mona (Natalie Press) and Tamsin (Emily Blunt).
Mona is working class, rebellious, bored with life and with the newfound religious convictions of her ex-con brother Phil (Paddy Considine). Tamsin is well educated, spoiled and cynical. Each girl is wary of each other's differences when they first meet, but this coolness soon melts into mutual fascination and attraction. Adding further volatility to the summer heat is Phil, who tries to impose his new found religious fervour upon his sister Mona.
Film magazine Screen International called My Summer Of Love a 'freewheeling evocation of the emotional neediness and spiritual emptiness that briefly bind the girls to each other.'
Developing My Summer of Love
The development process for My Summer of Love was very unusual, and scriptwriting, casting and scheduling all took place simultaneously.
Read MoreDistributing My Summer of Love
As soon as My Summer Of Love was completed, the search began for a UK distributor. The UK rights were acquired by ContentFilm Plc.
Read MoreShooting My Summer of Love
Unconventionally, a 'split shoot' was used: two thirds of the film was shot, then edited together, before the final third was filmed.
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