Another memorable little gem from writer-director Pawel Pawlikowski, whose Last Resort was much loved. From the grimness of Margate's asylum-seekers, this film switches to the glories of a Yorkshire summer, where bored local teen Mona (Natalie Press) meets vacationing rich girl Tamsin (Emily Blunt). Blunt appears dramatically astride a white horse while Press is pottering along on a moped with no motor, symbolic of a relationship of opposites, which swiftly flowers into intensity.

Pawlikowski is a superb director of actors and pulls memorable performances from his little-known leads, supported, as in Last Resort, by Paddy Considine, in a difficult role as Press's criminal brother turned born-again evangelist. Adapted from Helen Cross's novel, it has a lovely freewheeling quality, recaptures the intensity of teen ideas and ideals in its vengeful duo, and is at least as good as the similarly themed Heavenly Creatures, which gave Peter Jackson and Kate Winslet a kick-start a decade ago.