http://ambival.net/movies/my-summer-of-love Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:58:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://ambival.net/movies/my-summer-of-love#comment-560 Ambival.net » Movies » Oranges are not the Only Fruit Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:52:19 +0000 http://ambival.net/?p=572#comment-560 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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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