jazzest Review of My Summer of Love

My Summer of Love (2004)

Intense Emotion That Only Lesbian Romance May Attain

[7/10 · 9 May 2005]

There is a type of intense emotion that only a lesbian romance may attain, and you will experience it through the character development in and at the end of My Summer of Love, a straightforward and a little old-fashioned lesbian film. As suffocated from her religious brother and tired with her married male lover, Mona (Nathalie Press) falls for a little older, sophisticated, and intelligent Tamsin (Emily Blunt). Their mutual feeling is slowly grown and then is crystallized into a touching scene: their silhouettes' confessing love for each other before a fire. At the end, after Mona learns that Tamsin is different from what she has presented and just wanted to have a summer fling with Mona, Mona's feeling explodes and she attempts drowning Tasmin, before the very last picture of Mona walking alone, which is reminiscent of the last scene of The 400 Blows.