Plot
In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona (Press) meets the exotic, pampered Tasmin (Blunt). Over the summer season, the two young women discover they have much to teach one another, and much to explore together.
Storyline A tale of obsession and deception, and the struggle for love and faith in a world where both seem impossible. The film charts the emotional and physical hothouse effects that bloom one summer for two young women: Mona, behind a spiky exterior, hides an untapped intelligence and a yearning for something beyond the emptiness of her daily life; Tamsin is well-educated, spoiled and cynical. 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 volatility is Mona's older brother Phil, 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?
Writers: Helen Cross, Pawel Pawlikowski
Cast: Natalie Press
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Mona
Emily Blunt
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Tamsin
Paddy Considine
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Phil
Dean Andrews
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Ricky
Michelle Byrne
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Ricky's Wife
Paul Antony-Barber
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Tamsin's Father
Lynette Edwards
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Tamsin's Mother
Kathryn Sumner
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Sadie
Taglines:
The most dangerous thing to want is more.
Filming Locations: Cornholme, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Box Office Details
Budget: £1,700,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend: €7,242
(Netherlands)
(24 April 2005)
(5 Screens)
Gross: $992,238
(USA)
(7 August 2005)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
Marcel Cerdan, the boxer, wasn't Edith's husband. He was her lover and the love of her live. He died in a plane crash and she never recovered from his death. Edith Piaf never killed anyone (that we know of) and certainly did not kill anyone with a fork.
Quotes: Tamsin:
I just felt so useless. She was my one sister, my beautiful sister and she started to turn into this monster. These bones on her body just started to jut out like someone had stuck daggers under her skin. And her hair, she started growing hair all over her body - it was like a sort of dense fur...
User Review
it captures a certain something
Rating:
I really enjoyed this film. I especially liked the langour of its
pacing (helped by a wonderful soundtrack), certainly at the start where
we simply observe the girls hanging out together drinking copious
amounts of red wine and smoking constantly. Something about the
timelessness, the heaviness of the heat, the bird song and buzzing
insects caught perfectly that summer after 'A' levels where there is
nothing to do but simply live, spend time with friends, and fantasies
can take on a larger and more defined shape than realities. The
'lesbian' angle was handled deftly - though as another user commented,
it would be good to see a film which manages to trace the intensity of
female adolescent friendships without having them be sexual in nature -
but this is a very special time, and the film caught that beautifully.
The poignancy of Mona's existence was undersold as well, which gave it
a greater power - she is the one who has truly suffered loss, whereas
Tamsin... well, you have to make up your own mind about that. A minor
film, but hits its notes perfectly.
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