A Summer Story (1988)

Simply Perfect

Good concept, poorly executed.

Absolutely the worst movie.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

I found this English Romance heartwarming and exciting. When this beautiful country girl named Megan comes to the aid of a young barrister who injured his ankle while passing through her homeland with a friend, she falls in love. This story reminds me of the innocence of country life and the social pressures of the olden times for a girl to marry and not have a career. Megan is a gal who's heart runs free and wants to be cared for by a loving gentleman. The suspense builds when there's competition between two lads and who does she choose? This story makes me yearn for the best for Megan and her love. This story keeps you on the edge of your seat as to how this couple winds up.

excellent and beautiful movie.i watched it 10 years ago when i was teenager in local TV channel. i been trying to watch this movie again,but couldn't find it. if anyone have any source, kind enough to duplicate a copy of VCD,DVD,please let me know. thanks a lot. [email protected] APPLE TREE "The Apple-tree, the singing and the gold." -- Murray's "Hippolytus Of Euripides." In their silver-wedding day Ashurst and his wife were motoring along the outskirts of the moor, intending to crown the festival by stopping the night at Torquay, where they had first met. This was the idea of Stella Ashurst, whose character contained a streak of sentiment. If she had long lost the blue-eyed, flower-like charm, the cool slim purity of face and form, the apple-blossom colouring, which had so swiftly and so oddly affected Ashurst twenty-six years ago, she was still at forty-three a comely and faithful companion, whose cheeks were faintly mottled, and whose grey-blue eyes had acquired a certain fullness. It was she who had stopped the car where the common rose steeply to the left, and a narrow strip of larch and beech, with here and there a pine, stretched out towards the valley between the road and the first long high hill of the full moor. She was looking for a place where they might lunch, for Ashurst never looked for anything; and this, between the golden furze and the feathery green larches smelling of lemons in the last sun of April--this, with a view into the deep valley and up to the long moor heights, seemed fitting to the decisive nature of one who sketched in water-colours, and loved romantic spots. Grasping her paint box, she got out.

Talk about getting thrown for a loop! I watched this movie with no expectations and became mesmerized by its tale! It is so true and powerful that it stays with you forever. Love, after all, is all about decisions and compromises. Everyone chooses to give up something (someone) when they choose to love someone (something) for life. The emotional power of what might have been is breath-taking and impacts every one of us no matter how happy we are or how good life turned out.We know it would have been vastly different had we chosen a different path. Anyway, I am buying this one on DVD. (on ebay right now).

This film, though little noticed by the general moviegoing public, is a beautifully photographed and acted masterpiece. It is a bittersweet tale of lost love, based on a short story ("The Apple Tree") by John Galsworthy. Most of the film, in writer Penelope Mortimer's skillful adaptation, is presented as a flashback -- sandwiched by an introduction and coda that are devastatingly poignant. Piers Haggard directs with a lighthanded touch that makes the characters seem utterly real. I cannot recommend this film too highly. Every time I view it, I am overwhelmed anew by its intense vision of human nature. A gem!