Personally, I'm going to go see My Summer of Love. Its playing nearby and the trailer for it looked quite threatening. I'm mostly interested in it because it once again deals with sex and family in0fighting. Basically, a brother and sister fall in love with the same girl. It looks like a very well exectuted film to say the least, and is sitting 91% at rt right now (100 Cream of the Crop).

Just look at that poster!

I can't wait! Here's the synopsis from focus films:




The other movie doing very well as far as critical acclaim is Me and You and Everyone We Know. I know Mary has been mentioning this one alot due to the fact that the director is female, Miranda July. She's been getting quite a reception here at NY, and is sitting at 11 to 2 fresh at rt.





These are the first two indies of the year that I've started to hear alot of buzz for, and I expect them to be fairly successful as far as box office and distribution patterns. My SUmmer of Love especially. I'm going to catch it this weekend, and hopefully Everyone We Know as well if I can.

They go into limited release starting this Friday.

Thank you, dolcevita.

Miranda July isn't only a female, but also a celebrated artist in many areas. I hope she fine her success in US movie industry.


This, we also should see "Heights", because it is one of the last productions from a celebrated producer Ismail Merchant, who died May 25 in London.

She shouldn't be eating that apple... [-( [-( [-(

Sounds very interesting Dolce Can't wait to read the review

My Summer of Love looks interesting.

I'm more interested in Heights, though (lots of Closer comparisons).

The trailers play heavily on the Closer comparison for Heights, and since I thought that film was a masterpiece, I'll definately check out the latter.

I hated Closer... So maybe i wont watch Heights I'm not the type though to watch indies though.. no one will go with me

http://www.worldofkj.com/Galia-MySummerLove.php

Loved My Summer of Love. First A of the year! Coincidentally, it shares a bit of similar layering with the only movie last year that got an A from me, Bad Education.

I don't want to give it away, but basically half way through the movie the sort of innocent flirting gets alot darker, and by the end, Pawel has built a truly uncomfortable space in which all three, Mona, Tamsin, and Mona's brother Phil, reveal certain new aspects of themselves. For the most part, Summer is a visual orgasm. Pawel really bathes the two women in light (literally) and they're both very gritty and beautiful people. When the tone of the movie gets darker, the continued use of deep shadows and bright sunshine starts to feel sinister.

Really engaging from start to finish due to the slow evolution of atmosphere, the story itself is sort of paced in the beginning before going into over-drive near its climactic end.

I hope everyone gets a chance to see it.

I will try to catch Me and You this evening if I'm up for it. If not, it'll wait until early this upcoming week.

Saw a thing for Me and You and Everyone We Know on IFC last night. Will definately watch for this one. Probably won't go to theater though.

andaroo, its opening here a week earlier for the new IFC theatre. It wasn't even listed as local playing times when I went to search for it today (says it's limited release is 6.24). I stumbled upon it by accident when I got out of the train.

I'll try to watch it tomorrow and get a review up before it kicks off its run next week.

Everyone go watch My SUmmer of Love and let me know what you thought!

Try this one
http://www.ifccenter.com/

Yes mary, that's where I saw it. It gets a week early release there. So I'll let everyone know what I thought soon.

Both "Heights" and "My Summer of Love" did so-so.
"Heights" -- $57,900 from 7 screens.
"My Summer of Love"--$90,600 from 17 screens

"Me and You and Everyone We Know" do OK -- $28,100 from one screen. (I think it would do better-- IFC put many grassroots effort to promote this movie.)

Me You and Everyone We Know did really well, but it remains to see if it can do that well on more then one screen?

I'm interested in all three.

But mostly Heights, because of the slighttttttt Oscar buzz Glenn Close has received. Which I now think is unlikely to happen, but, who cares...

Ebert & Roeper raved about Me and You and Everyone We Know. I'm interested now.

They also liked Heights a lot.

Full review up soon (tomorrow maybe, or thursday). But I just got back from watching Me and You and Everyone We Know. It was, okay. It didn't send me raving to the pen. I took a small walk afterwards, and it gave me time to think about it. Its a thinking movie. Nothing is all that visceral about the film. July pulls some nice little moments, but mostly its very heavy handed, and I was expecting a little more from the installation artist. She pretty much only includes the pieces in a semi-autobiographical piece about an artists trying to get her work into the ICA (she plays the artist as well). It doesn't really transfer over into the rest of the film.

She tries at one point with a gold fish in a bad of water on the highway, but the effect is only so-so.

I guess its a love story, but there are too many accessory stories to really say its simply about that. In fact, the love story part is pretty thin, and one of the less interesting points. As is the usual bogus joke about internet sex chat (and who does it). There was a very touching piece about an older man and the woman he meets, and another small skit involving two girls that decide they will try to lose their virginity together as a support system (sort of). But these moments get dwarfed by some pretty weak material involving the older man who might entertain their new decision. And the love story itself doesn't resonate. The artists is a bit too much of a floozy, even when stalking, and is sort of Amelie-esque in her simple mindedness aspects (though the story is not the same of course). People who loved that might find her character here less grating than I did.

The entire movie, even the comic parts, were delivered so dead pan that it felt very monotone. Like none of the people, even the kids, involved have ever cracked a smile in their lives.

For people who aren't already really familiar with aspects of film/installation art, you might find the pieces of work and the opening sequence really new. To me they're decent more so for the fact that the pieces are actually the moments in which July provides some softer, more poignant, discussions. Its the rest of it that's kind of mediocre. A combination of the two, will most likely just pass in my book. Around a B-, but it might not reach that after further thought and a write-up.

Noble for a first attempt to combine the two, I hope the next one ups the storyline a bit more, since here, the strengths were mostly visual and audio...conceptual narration (when there were strengths).

Yow, dv - this was a hard thread to find - how about a more explicit title? This sub-forum is already hidden enough!

Anyways, I saw My Summer of Love today and here's my review:

Those darn Brits seem to persist in turning out really quality drama on a regular basis. My Summer of Love is no exception. If you'd asked me yesterday, whether I thought there'd be a better UK movie than Dear Frankie released in 2005, I would've seriously doubted it. And having just seen Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants yesterday, I seem to have miraculously landed in a special land of awesome girlpower movies - mind you Nathalie Press and Emily Blunt are a wee bit more grown-up than the sisterhood...

Yup, when they say "my summer of love", it's actually short for "my summer of hot teenage lesbian love"...

The two lead actresses are perfectly cast and are so natural (not to mention au naturel on occasion...), that they carry the story of their summer straight into your heart. Supporting them is Paddy Constantine (so great in In America a couple years back) as Mona's born-again older brother. The story is a really spirited, subversive, and cynical exploration of love, obsession, and faith - a story that you'll be continuously surprised with right through to the very end. The director, Pawel Pawlikowski has a true sense of style - he'll be one to keep an eye on down the road...

Must be my lucky week, cause this is another great movie I've gotta rate:

5 out of 5.

*spoilers within post on My Summer of Love*

Glad you liked it Braddley! Glad you even saw it!

I have some questions for you.

1. Do you think Tamsin was actually into Mona at all, or just...really bored? This seems to be a case study in fabrication of a whole second life to pass the time. It's revealed when she comes onto Mona's brother too. That's when you realize how good she is at planting seeds of sincerity long in advance of her manipulations. When she gets upset, it made me remember how seriously she took the cross-raising, and that perhaps that was a performance too. Especially at the end when you learn about her sister, its clearly a game from the start.

2. Did you pick up on the class warfare? This movie really makes me want to re-read Great Expectations. Which I hated when I was younger. But the highlight of that book (in my memory) was Benefactress Mrs. Havisham trying to get Pip to fall in love with her daughter. I actually think the sister's "shrine" room (untouched since death) is a direct reference to the room Havisham had never touched since her groom-to-be walked out on her weddiong banquet. Dunno. I might be over-reading, but I definately got a sense of that source. Hmmmmmm?

And yes, it was quite the turn-on of a movie. I wasn't expecting the ending at all though. Which is odd considering how into this genre (duplicious characters) I tend to be.

*end spoilers*

What did you find most interesting about it?

I agree with the 5 of 5 stars you gave it. Its the only movie I've given a straight A to this year!

I think you've answered your own question, though I might suggest that it was a little deeper than just a "game"...


Class runs almost as deep in England as it does in India, if not deeper. Though clearly Mona wasn't quite an "untouchable"...


Doesn't all love have an element of guile to it?


The two actresses!