I was wondering what happened to Pawel Pawlikowski after winning Newcomer BAFTA for The Last Resort (2001) and film BAFTA for My Summer of Love. He'd shot 60% of black comedy The Restraint of Beasts ('Looks great, like nothing I've ever done or seen before') when wife became seriously ill. He quit to look after her and kids but she died a few months later. Then he was supposed to be making a Stalin film for Film 4. Now at least has finished Douglas Kennedy adaptation.
Anyway My Summer was feature debut of Natalie Press (Wasp) and Emily Blunt, and the style is quite distinctive (our fave moments: the girls disappear into gorse, then a puff of smoke; Natalie showing how her ex made love).
Shot by Ryszard Lenczewski, music Will Gregory & Alison Goldfrapp.
Sweet and sour.
Paddy Considine was also in Last Resort. Both leads fab. Sense of summer and place well caught. Can't be England though as it doesn't rain once. Intimate close-ups.
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