My Summer of Love

My Summer of Love 3 star

For me this is an interesting movie but I was really a little let down by its ending. I guess in general the movie just didn’t play out the way I expected it to, which is a horrible way to judge a movie, I guess, but it fills up this paragraph I guess :) The two main actresses work well together and it’s very colourful to look at. It just all seems a little wasted in the end – which is probably true to life, but not very satisfying on the screen.


One Response to “My Summer of Love”

  1. Ambival.net » Movies » Oranges are not the Only Fruit Says:

    [...] Not gonna write anywhere near as much as I felt I might write about this one, as with my last review it’s a case of right now or write never This TV movie reminded me of a lot of other movies – from Whistle Down the Wind to Heavenly Creatures (Geraldine McEwan’s Mother very like the mother in that movie at times), An Angel at my Table (probably just the ginger hair I’m thinking of) and Breaking the Waves, but more ultimately of My Summer of Love, which to me it resembles beyond the mere lesbian factor. In the end, like “My Summer …”, the movie kind of fizzles out when it feels like it ought to explode. An IMDb reviewer noted the movie’s “plainness”, and when I first read that, following the first part, though I agreed with them, I thought the plainness worked in the movie’s favour … and it does, but to a point. [...]

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