2005年NPR美国国家公共电台六月-'My Summer of Love,' No Average Teen Flic

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…name worth remembering. His last movie, Last Resort was a critical favorite. His latest was named the best British film of 2004, and has just been released in US theatres. It is called My Summer of Love, and Los Angeles Times and Morning Edition film critic Kenneth Turan says it’s not too typical teenager summer frolic.

Hollywood may pander¹ to the teenage market, but it carefully avoids the kinds of troubling stories about young people that might actually say something. The studios steer² clear of troublesome emotions, difficult relationships and obsessive³ behavior. Director Peter Jackson in his pre-Lord of The Rings days explored all of these in his incendiary 1994 film Heavenly Creatures. Now Polish-born British director Pawel Pawlikowski explored some of them again in the exceptional My Summer of Love. It’s a film as different from its sundry⁴ day teen’s exploitation title as its pair of protagonists⁵ are from each other.
What’s your name?
Mona.
You don’t look like a Mona.
It’s not my real name. Cause of me bother, I always complain those kids with a start calling me Mona. Cause me real name Lisa, Mona Lisa. Get it?
Yes, I studied the original. I’m Thomson.

Aristocratic Thomson and working class Mona, soon realize they share a babyface nihilism and a contempt for whatever anyone else takes seriously.

Thomson is a dreamer, Mona, a driven doer. All the former is in need of a complice, the latter is looking for an instigator⁶ to point her in the wrong direction.
He don’t *…
Why?
So they * anymore.They also share a yearning⁷ for the fantasy of all consuming romance.
Well, anyway he had a wife and a kid…
Man like that should be castrated.
As their personal relationship deepens, as their notions of fantasy and reality get jumbled⁸ up, it’s an open question as to who is in more danger of getting sinned by the symbiotic⁹ bond.

We should teach that we get a lesson.
Pawel Pawlikowski is an assured and intuitive writer/director, his sensitivity for people enables him to truly get inside his character’s heads. For his actors, he uses a system of controlled improvisation¹⁰. Pawlikowski started with a 37-page shooting document as opposed to the standard 120-page script, using two gifted adventurous¹¹ actresses, making their feature debuts¹². He has achieved wonders. Pawlikowski gets his cast act dramatically, unexpectedly, but always believably. He’s created a provocative¹³ love story about two people who will never forget each other but not for anything like the reasons they initially¹⁴ imagined.

Kenneth Turan reviews movies for Morning Edition and for the Los Angeles Times.