Director Pawel Pawlikowski takes an isolated West Yorkshire town, two restless teenage girls and a long, hot summer and fashions them into a bittersweet rite-of-passage story driven by the subtle performances of newcomers Nathalie Press and Emily Blunt. Fatherless and unmotivated redhead Mona (Press) has lived her whole life upstairs from her late mother's pub — the optimistically named Swan — which her brother Phil (Paddy Considine), a lifelong hell-raiser who found religion in jail, has just converted into a Christian meeting house. Mona is at loose ends; she has no job, no education to speak of and no love life — her loutish, married boyfriend Ricky (Dean Andrews)...
Released:
2005
Rated:
R
Length:
86 mins