I knew a girl named Tamsin once. She was the little sister of someone I worked with and she was a stunningly beautiful young lady. To counteract that, I also knew a person named Kristy who looked like warmed over Robbert Loggia. The world is filled with this Yin and Yang-like conflict of wondrous visage and sensational deformity.
There’s a girl named Tamsin at the core of international sensation My Summer of Love, a film coming to Atlanta soon enough but as a CHUD.com reader you have the edge on the parade of freaks that somehow make their way to Atlanta’s theaters. I saw what was either a woman or the Rancor at the Tara this weekend. I’m not saying that the people who frequent the Tara are freaks, I’m just saying that there’s a pig-like guard near Cheshire Bridge Rd. looking for his pet.
The plot of My Summer of Love is as follows, and pay attention to the presence of Paddy Considine, an actor quickly rising to the top of my personal chart of bad ass gentlemen:
My Summer of Love is this summer’s most intoxicating and
intriguing romance. From Pawel Pawlikowski, the award-winning director of Last
Resort, comes a tale of obsession and deception, and the struggle for love and
faith in a world where both seem impossible. My Summer of Love was
the winner of the top prize at the Edinburgh International Film Festival,
seduced audiences at the Toronto International Film Festival, and recently won a
BAFTA Award.
The passionate, droll, and mysterious drama features
striking performances from its two lead actresses, both of whom are movie
newcomers.
The film vibrantly charts the emotional and physical hothouse
effects that bloom one summer for two young women (Natalie Press and Emily
Blunt). Mona (played by Ms. Press), behind a spiky exterior, hides an untapped
intelligence and a yearning for something beyond the emptiness of her daily
life. Tamsin (Ms. Blunt) is well-educated, spoiled, and cynical. As they are
complete opposites, each is wary of the other’s differences when they first
meet, but this coolness soon melts into mutual fascination, amusement, and
attraction.
Adding further volatility is Mona’s older brother Phil
(Paddy Considine), who has renounced his criminal past for religious fervor –
which he tries to impose upon his sister. Mona, however, is experiencing her own
rapture. “We must never be parted,” Tamsin intones to Mona…but can Mona
completely trust her?
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the words "PETER CETERA!". I want to freak out the USPS.
These are the cities we’re doing the screening in:
Grab a SASE and shove it in the
mail and PLEASE specify the city it’s for as I don’t know all those suburbs and often have sent passes to
the wrong cities because folks didn’t specify.
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