“My Summer of Love” is better than a lot of them, with exceptionally strong performances by the two leads and a sharply wistful tone achieved by director Pawl Pawlikowski — but when you boil it down to its essential elements, it is no different from, say, “Lost and Delirious.”
In this regard, My Summer of Love calls to mind other recent sapphically inclined coming-of-age films: i.e., Show Me Love, Lost and Delirious, The Dreamlife of Angels, and Heavenly Creatures.