My Summer of Love
2004 British film directed by Pawel Pawlikowski and co-written by Pawel Pawlikowski and Michael Wynne. It is based on the novel of the same name by Helen Cross.
Working class Mona (Natalie Press), whose once-hotheaded brother Phil (Paddy Considine) became a born again Christian in prison, meets upper class Tamsin (Emily Blunt), who suffers from a lack of love in her family. The two young girls quickly form a bond despite their different social backgrounds.
Filmed in West Yorkshire, the film went on to win a BAFTA.
Tropes used in My Summer of Love include:
- Awful Truth: Tamsin doesn't love Mona, she just used her to have summer fun.
- Brainy Brunette: Tamsin.
- Bury Your Lesbians
- Cast the Expert: Emily Blunt was cast because Pawel Pawlikowski felt she was perfect for the role and because she is a competent cello player.
- Dysfunctional Family: Both Mona and Tamsin have one.
- Faith Heel Turn: Phil does a brutal one at the end and expels the believers from his house.
- Faking the Dead: Mona fakes a suicide by hanging.
- Fille Fatale: Tamsin.
- First Kiss
- The Fundamentalist: Phil.
- Hiding Behind Religion: Phil.
- I Lied: Tamsin, about her sister.
- Lonely Rich Kid: Tamsin.
- Lonely Together
- Love Makes You Crazy
- Manipulative Bastard: Tamsin.
- Missing Mom: Mona's mother died of a cancer.
- Nietzsche Wannabe: Tamsin.
- Oop North
- Parental Neglect: Tamsin's parents, and Phil towards Mona.
- Preacher Man: Phil.
- Promotion to Parent: Phil.
- Principles Zealot: Phil.
- Psycho Lesbian: Tamsin.
- Troubled Sympathetic Bigot: Phil.