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It Felt Like Love
Awkward, lonely, and often playing the third wheel, Lila is determined to emulate the sexual exploits of her more experienced best friend. She fixates on a tough older guy who will 'sleep with anyone' and tries to insert herself into his world, putting herself in a dangerously vulnerable situation.



















2 December 1984, Århus, Denmark



















May 09, 2014
Hittman wraps her pointed agenda in a deceptively lovely tone poem about adolescence and summer, almost impressionistic in its evocation of the raging hormones of the teenage years.
March 27, 2014
The scenes between Lila, Sammy, and Sammy's macho friends feature some of Hittman's most acute dialogue and direction.
March 27, 2014
First-time feature filmmaker Hittman, working with the talented DP Sean Porter, has a natural way with visuals that communicates the curiosity running rabid through the blood of summer-idle teenagers.
September 08, 2014
It Felt Like Love is Hittman's first credited feature, and when it begins to slow, one can tell that she is perhaps still navigating the transition from short to full-length.
April 24, 2014
It's neither overly sentimental nor obnoxiously cautionary.
March 27, 2014
"It Felt Like Love" doesn't just unreel before your eyes, it weighs on you.
May 16, 2014
[Hittman's] offbeat visual style ... helps put you inside the mind of the lead character, for whom nothing is clear.
April 24, 2014
In Gina Piersanti, also making her feature debut, Hittman has found the perfect actress to portray the difficult undertaking of growing up, or at least trying to.
March 20, 2014
It's easy to be seduced by the loosely observational vibe of the movie, even as its tale of a shrinking violet struggling not to be a late bloomer fails to strike more than a single note of dismay.
March 20, 2014
Gorgeously shot in Brooklyn's beachfront neighborhoods and devoid of easy sentimentality, "It Felt Like Love" features realistic performances all around, understandable given the cast of mostly first-time actors.
March 27, 2014
Rarely has the zone between girlhood and womanhood been captured with such urgent honesty than in Eliza Hittman's superb teen drama "It Felt Like Love."
April 03, 2014
Hittman draws attention to the pervasive cultural forces (rap music, Internet pornography, suggestive dancing on TV) that present young girls as sexual objects, making the scenes of exploitation seem sadly inevitable.