2/5 awwwwwwwful boring
  by S. Murray (usa)
I MEAN THIS HOLE LESBIAN THING IS OVER RATED! OVER RATED BECAUSE NOT UNTIL YOU EXPERIENCE IT YOU CAN RELATE! NOT UNTIL YOU ENDURE THE PAIN AND BLISS YOU CAN RELATE AND THIS MOVIE JUST DIDN'T CAPTURE THAT WHOLE LOVE RELATIONSHIP-TYPICAL LONELY RICH GIRL AND POOR CLINGY GIRL-RICH GIRL TAKES ADVANTAGE OF CLINGY GIRL-WHO IS LONGING TO LOVE KINDA REMINDS ME OF LOST AND DELIRIOUS! FILM WAS LONG BORING AND THE TWIST AT THE END WAS SO BLAH! I PERSONALLY WANTED A DIFFERENT PLOT-SAVING FACE IS MUCH BETTER!

5/5 Mesmerizing and Seductive!
  by L. Novicki (NY)
I happened to enjoy the movie so much more than I did the book! Perhaps it was because of Emily Blunt's incredible portrayal of Tamsin who is beautiful, seductive and very troubled! She did a brilliant job and if there isn't a reason for someone to watch this movie, I can tell you now, BLUNT is the reason!

4/5 Slight but enjoyable
  by One-Line Film Reviews (Easton, MD)
The Bottom Line:

Perhaps now best known as the film in which Emily Blunt removed her top, My Summer of Love is a fairly slight but interesting motion picture about an uneven friendship between two girls; it could easily be argued that much more was made of a similar theme in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, but that doesn't change the fact that this film bears viewing on its own terms.

3/4

5/5 the dreamer and the cynic
  by Doug Anderson (Miami Beach, Florida United States)
In recent years there has been a crop of small films that recall those great small films of the early to mid-70's. Into the Wild (2007) and Wendy and Lucy (2008) are prime examples of this phenomenon, but My Summer of Love (2004) might be the most interesting. It certainly leaves a lasting impression. Really two things leave a lasting impression: the bleak but beautiful Yorkshire valley (which serves as a kind of refuge for two wild creatures that refuse to be contained by social mores/norms) and Emily Blunt's performance (which to this day remains her signature role).

My favorite films from the 70's were the small films that shunned conventional narrative techniques and celebrated the psychological states of individuals who also shunned convention. I am thinking of Barbet Schroeder's More and La Vallee, Antonioni's Zabriskie Point, Altman's Images and Three Women, Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock, and the recently re-released Frank Perry film The Last Summer (1969). These films celebrated little moments of liberation, but they also acknowledged the fleeting nature of liberation, and the cynicism that often rested at the heart of the liberatory impulse. The reason so many of these films were made in the early to mid-seventies was because that was the moment when post WWII, 1950's, and 1960's optimism faded and turned into 1970's skepticism and selfism. In so many of the seventies films dreams of liberation are equated with self-delusion and/or self-destruction. In the 1960's to dream was to awaken to possibility; in the 1970's to dream was to refuse to see the world as it was. My Summer of Love is about two characters: one dreamer, and one cynic. But its also about how these contradictory impulses co-exist within each of us and how we negotiate between the two.

Without giving away too much of the movie's mystery, I'll just say the way Tasmin (played by Emily Blunt) negotiates her own contradictory impulses is fascinating to watch. This is not only a wise and open-eyed study of the divided nature of post-adolescent psychology, but a wise and open-eyed study of the divided nature (and warring impulses) of western psychology.

Highly recommended!



5/5 awesome
  by Cynthia M. Adent (Chicago, IL)
i received my movie within a couple days- super fast shipping. no issues with the product itself. i wish every place you buy something from were this fast!!