Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Goingbegging We think of Alfred Munnings as someone born old - the reactionary curmudgeon grimly rejecting everything new in art. So a romantic tale of the young Munnings joining a Cornish artists' colony in 1912 makes an appealing topic, even though the film turns out to be little more than escapist wallpaper.The screenplay is drawn from a novel based on real events, with the future Dame Laura Knight as the moving force behind the group, played with gusto by Hattie Morahan. Her patronising of gypsy communities may be called... well, patronising, but it lends colour to this film, along with the equine theme, giving us not only a dramatic race-meeting down on the beach, but also some well-deserved exposure for Munnings' acclaimed horse-paintings.Artists' communes are always incestuous, and the main story is a love-triangle, with Munnings and his friend Gilbert competing for the hopelessly unstable Florence Carter-Wood, played in a suitably minor key by Emily Browning. A discreet view of a local artist's model emerging naked from the sea brings out the insecurity in Florence, who stands in front of the mirror anxiously comparing her own endowments. Later, when she is shown Munnings' portrait of her, proudly displayed at the Royal Academy, she attempts suicide because his portraits of other women are also on display. By now, Munnings and Florence have married, but the non-chemistry between them is painfully obvious. Gilbert's relationship with her is far more harmonious. But he is just off to the war, as the end-titles helpfully notify us.The producers are obviously trying to achieve a Brideshead touch, but the characters are not sharply drawn, and we are mainly just drifting in an agreeable atmosphere of rocky coves, gypsy violins against the surf, passionate poetry recitals and credible period dialogue, not without appropriate elements of coarseness.Laura's husband, the eminent Harold Knight, is somewhat thrown away. And one of the poems ends with the words 'Summer in February', which are left hanging there as the title of the film, though their meaning is hard indeed to fathom. IMDb mentions a running-time of 100 minutes, so my HD version at 82 must be missing some scenes. It is certainly missing professional post-production - ye gods, the audio is something like two seconds out of kilter with the video!

tao902 The film focuses on the bohemian Lamorna Group, which was part of the Newlyn School of artists whop based themselves in Cornwall. The unpredictable Munnings develops a relationship with Florence who initially was perceived as likely to be Gilbert's partner. The marriage soon falls apart and Florence commits suicide. For a supposedly wild, bohemian group they don't seem to live a particularly hedonistic, pleasurable lifestyle and the film isn't particularly enjoyable itself. Some of the acting and dialogue seemed stereotypical. The group may well have been more interesting than the film, which perhaps does them an injustice.

SnoopyStyle It's 1913 Cornwall. The Newlyn School attracts a group of bohemian artists known as the Lamorna Group. Alfred Munnings (Dominic Cooper), Gilbert Evans (Dan Stevens), Laura Knight (Hattie Morahan) and husband Harold Knight (Shaun Dingwall) are best of friends. Joey's sister Florence Carter Wood (Emily Browning) arrives to start classes and becomes the center of a love triangle with Gilbert and Alfred. Alfred proposes marriage first but her family disapproves.I found the art discussions boring. I found the drawings lackluster. I don't know any of the artists being portrayed. The passion from Gilbert is suppressed. It takes awhile to get the conflict going. The actors struggle to infuse this with scraps of energy. It's hard to be interested in any of these relationships.

anniesmith76 Not normally the sort I film I would watch, but so glad I did. I was gripped from start to finish. No time for me to get a numb bottom, which normally happens in the cinema. I thought Dominic Cooper was brilliant, my favourite character.Beautiful scenery, love the horses on the beach.I did cry quite a lot at the ending and the fact that two people so perfect for each other did not end up together has stayed with me since the film. I am an old romantic and felt like screaming at the screen when Florence found that bottle of pills again.Worth a watch - thoroughly enjoyably and entertaining.