My Summer of Love

Pawel Pawlikowski

IndieLisboa 2005 •

United Kingdom, Fiction, 2004, 86′

Mona has just got hold of a brillant moped that only cost a tenner. No engine but still dirt-cheap. She lives with her brother, Phil, who used ti run a pub before he found God and ured away all the booze. Tamsin is rich, spoilt and trying to live a life of seductive decadence. They meet on the moors, above their quiet Yorkshire village and begin an intense, unlikely friendship. Tamsin is tragic and fantastical, Mona, rough and witty. Tamsin is charmed and Mona is hooked, Tamsin and Mona want to escape their lives but Phil wants to save them and save everybody else. Mona wants the old, dangerous Phil back; the brother that she loved. Tamsin wants to see what it takes to break him.