It Felt Like Love
In this unflinchingly honest and refreshingly unsentimental coming-of-age story, 14-year-old Lila spends a languid South Brooklyn summer playing third wheel to her promiscuous friend Chiara and Chiara's boyfriend Patrick.
Eager for her own sexual awakening, Lila gamely decides to pursue the older, thuggish Sammy, rumored to sleep with anyone. But as Lila's overt advances unmask her inexperience and quiet desperation, she is quickly pushed into frightening and unwelcome new territory.
Nominated for Best Cinematography and the John Cassavetes Award at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Nominated for Best of Next! at the Sundance Film Festival.
"Rarely has the zone between girlhood and womanhood been captured with such urgent honesty than in Eliza Hittman's superb teen drama." - Inkoo Kang, The Los Angeles Times
Running Time
83 mins
Year
2013
Kanopy ID
6318543
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Comments (2)
This film is difficult to watch, and brutally honest in such a way that mainstream films are not. After watching this film, I feel that most Hollywood teen films, or films about teens are merely caricatures.
Dark, lost and dangerous, adolescence in a glance,,, they went a it too far for me