A different kind of summer love: ‘My Summer of Love’

Sometimes I come across a film that knows how to capture the spirit of summer. Most of the time, these films are not your standard Hollywood productions: for example, I really liked ‘La Piscine’.

‘My Summer of Love’ is one of these films, that captures British summer that is mixed with boredom, exitement, friendship, infatuation and difference.

First of all, it is not your standard summer love story, as the two protagonist are both young girls in their teens.  However, it is neither your standard lesbian/bisexual movie: the unlikely friendship between the girls of lower and upper classes just flows into a extention of sexual exploration.

I like how Mona portrays the roughness of the ‘lower-class’ environment. She is bold, sometimes a bit masculine, but very caring. Tamsin is the partly neglected upper-class ‘princess’, who loves to dive into a summer of escapism with Mona.

I will not give any spoilers, but it certainly captures the mood of a summer love…even if the protagonists are not your usual type of lovers….