Stars: Nichola Burley, Josie Walker, Flora Hylton, Joel Sefton-Iongi | Written and Directed by Lucy Cohen
A girl makes friends with a local boy while on holiday in rural Cornwall. Looking for an escape from her mum and her new boyfriend, the young girl looks to seek solace wherever she can find it. When the boy takes her down to an abandoned tin mine, what they uncover there leads to trouble above ground.
The undeniable positive of a film festival — particularly a regional one — is discovering a title or two that would never have had their dues if it wasn’t for a circuit break. Whether it’s an unconscious bias or a gravitational pull, the British independent film has a certain appeal regardless of its quality or subject matter, almost as if the mere fact it fits the category indicates its greatness. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Lucy Cohen’s Edge of Summer,...
A girl makes friends with a local boy while on holiday in rural Cornwall. Looking for an escape from her mum and her new boyfriend, the young girl looks to seek solace wherever she can find it. When the boy takes her down to an abandoned tin mine, what they uncover there leads to trouble above ground.
The undeniable positive of a film festival — particularly a regional one — is discovering a title or two that would never have had their dues if it wasn’t for a circuit break. Whether it’s an unconscious bias or a gravitational pull, the British independent film has a certain appeal regardless of its quality or subject matter, almost as if the mere fact it fits the category indicates its greatness. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Lucy Cohen’s Edge of Summer,...
- 3/18/2024
- by Jasmine Valentine
- Nerdly
Films about childhood, aimed at adult viewers, have to speak effectively to memory. Lucy Cohen’s Edge Of Summer is a wonderfully sensual film full of the details that might pull one back into a remembered world: the edge of a lace curtain blowing against the sill. The sunlight on a patch of ceiling. The sharp, clear blue of the sea. One can almost smell the salt air, the bruised grass, the slightly musty odour of a holiday cottage just opened up early in the season. Evie (Flora Hylton) and her mother Yvonne (Josie Walker) were supposed to be going there to get some time together, just the two of them, but the sudden arrival of Tony (Steffan Rhodri), in whom her mother has an obvious sexual interest, crushes that hope. The resulting feelings of betrayal and abandonment are also the kind of things that linger over time.
Evie was still hoping.
Evie was still hoping.
- 3/9/2024
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Glasgow film festival: Two young protagonists discover something (but what is it?) in a disused tin mine in Lucy Cohen’s imperfect but atmospheric family psychodrama
Here is a dreamy, drifting film, directed by Lucy Cohen, set on the Cornish coast in the long distant pre-smartphone summer of 1991. It’s unevenly presented sometimes and not everything here works, yet it is interesting for its atmospheric use of location and images, its tonal shifts and a disconnect between the ostensible reality of what’s happening and the feeling that certain parts are a hallucination, a psychopathological symptom of trauma, or a remembered dream.
The scene is a wild and rocky coastline where Yvonne (Josie Walker) has arrived for a restorative break at a rented cottage with her quiet 11-year-old daughter Evie (Flora Hylton); Evie’s dad is not with them and Yvonne is apparently taking a break from her marriage. She has assured shy,...
Here is a dreamy, drifting film, directed by Lucy Cohen, set on the Cornish coast in the long distant pre-smartphone summer of 1991. It’s unevenly presented sometimes and not everything here works, yet it is interesting for its atmospheric use of location and images, its tonal shifts and a disconnect between the ostensible reality of what’s happening and the feeling that certain parts are a hallucination, a psychopathological symptom of trauma, or a remembered dream.
The scene is a wild and rocky coastline where Yvonne (Josie Walker) has arrived for a restorative break at a rented cottage with her quiet 11-year-old daughter Evie (Flora Hylton); Evie’s dad is not with them and Yvonne is apparently taking a break from her marriage. She has assured shy,...
- 3/8/2024
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
UK director Lucy Cohen’s narrative feature debut Edge Of Summer has been picked up for world sales by boutique UK-France sales outfit Alief, ahead of its world premiere at next month’s Glasgow Film Festival.
The film is about an 11 year-old girl who befriends a mysterious local boy while on holiday with her mother in Cornwall.
Flora Hylton and Joel Sefton-Iongi make their acting debuts alongside Josie Walker, Steffan Rhodri, Nichola Burley and Edward Rowe.
The drama was developed and produced by Julia Nottingham and Ariadne Kotsaki of UK outfit Dorothy St Pictures, and marks the company’s first foray into scripted content.
The film is about an 11 year-old girl who befriends a mysterious local boy while on holiday with her mother in Cornwall.
Flora Hylton and Joel Sefton-Iongi make their acting debuts alongside Josie Walker, Steffan Rhodri, Nichola Burley and Edward Rowe.
The drama was developed and produced by Julia Nottingham and Ariadne Kotsaki of UK outfit Dorothy St Pictures, and marks the company’s first foray into scripted content.
- 2/9/2024
- ScreenDaily
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