The film stars Dominic Cooper, Emily Browning, Dan Stevens, Hattie Morahan and Nicholas Farrell and focuses on the true story of the love triangle between British artist Alfred Munnings, his friend Gilbert Evans and Florence Carter-Wood in early 20th-century Cornwall.

Charismatic and caddish AJ is close friends with the gentlemanly and shy land agent Gilbert Evans, an army officer who formerly served in the Boer War and socialises with the various Lamorna artists.

Florence is embarrassed to see her painting so prominently displayed next to portraits of other women, and she confides in Gilbert that she begins to regret accepting AJ.

The film ends by stating that AJ never returned to Lamorna, but became one of the most celebrated artists of his generation and President of the Royal Academy; Laura and Harold Knight were both elected to the Royal Academy; Florence's brother, Joey, was killed in France in 1915; and Gilbert Evans stayed in Lamorna; the painting of Florence hung in his house for the rest of his life.

It's a true story and, because it's about a Bohemian artists' colony, the exciting thing is to recreate it, splash Cornwall and bring the county alive.

[8] Wang agreed to come aboard and during the recording sessions, Wallfisch was so impressed with her playing that he wrote her a solo piano suite of all the main themes.

[10] The track listing for the album is as follows:[9] Summer in February entered the box office chart at number 11 after grossing £74,898 in its opening weekend for a per-cinema average of £1,170 in 64 cinemas.

The site's consensus reads, "It boasts beautiful scenery, but in every other respect, Summer in February is a painfully bland period drama.

[14] Anna Smith, writing for Empire, also awarded the film three stars and she stated "While the melodrama occasionally grates, this works as a raw romance and an intriguing glimpse of a bold and brash artist ahead of his time.

"[16] Michael Hann from The Guardian writes "Proof that truth is duller than fiction comes with this tale of real events in the Lamorna artists' colony in Cornwall in the months before the first world war.

"[18] The Independent's Anthony Quinn felt that the film "struggles to rise above the blandness of a Sunday teatime serial",[19] where "sudden bursts of drama fizzle like damp fireworks".

[19] Derek Malcolm from the London Evening Standard lamented that the film "seems to be much ado about nothing very much, despite the pleasing performances and scenery,"[20] jibing that his father's "painted horse, if only he could speak, could probably tell [him] more about Munnings the artist than Summer in February does.