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It Felt Like Love
2013
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It Felt Like Love
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19
Negative reviews
3
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2.0
Its 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 fail ..
Av Club
3.8
It Felt Like Love doesnt just unreel before your eyes, it weighs on you.
Rogerebert
4.5
Despite its overly familiar coming of age mold, Milkshake cleverly downplays the silly premise with genuine protagonist who never devolves into a whit ..
Indie Wire
1.5
An evocatively shot, rawly unsentimental coming of ager from debut helmer Eliza Hittman.
Variety
3.0
The filmmaker has fallen for some of indiedoms worst clichs, including our main characters sad stare out to the ocean, and soft camerawork thats begin ..
Time Out
4.4
Eliza Hittmans film captures the exclusive properties of sex with a degree of intimacy and empathy that, at times, feels authentically revelatory.
4.5
A convincing tale of a too early coming of age gets strong performances from a cast of newcomers.
The Hollywood Reporter
4.5
Held together with few words and only the loosest of narratives, this insightful first feature from Eliza Hittman unspools mostly in sensual (but neve ..
The New York Times
4.0
The bulk of the movie doesnt break the diegesis in this manner, which retroactively makes the opening feel heavy handed. (
Paste Magazine
4.5
BEST MOVIES OF 2013: Turan | Sharkey | Olsen Lila isnt unattractive, but she has big, sad eyes made for longing.
4.5
In her pitch perfect feature film debut, writer director Eliza Hittman explores the terrible uncertainties of adolescence, and in the process reclaims ..
Village Voice
1.5
Hittman draws attention to the pervasive cultural forces (rap music, Internet pornography, suggestive dancing on TV) that present young girls as sexua ..
Chicago Reader
3.8
Gorgeously shot in Brooklyns beachfront neighborhoods and devoid of easy sentimentality, It Felt Like Love features realistic performances all around, ..
New York Post
3.5
It Felt Like Love, Eliza Hittmans debut feature, isnt like that at all.
Az Central
4.5
Resolutely descriptive, It Felt Like Love doesnt exactly have a plot, which feels absolutely right for a film whose elliptical yet intensely focused v ..
Npr
4.5
Eliza Hittmans first feature brings bracing insight and intimacy to the familiar subject of a teen agers sexual awakening ...
New Yorker
4.5
First time feature filmmaker Hittman, working with the talented DP Sean Porter, has a natural way with visuals that communicates the curiosity running ..
Blogs Indie Wire
2.5
Hittman demonstrates enough talent to suggest that she could make a terrific film. All she needs is an original idea.
The Dissolve
4.5
While theres nothing unusual about seeing a teenager trying to break free of the unindividuated and invisible state of childhood, the way in which it ..
Film Comment
2.5
However, this doesnt mean that writer director Eliza Hittmas film is without merit.
Under The Radar Mag
3.1
Its still an outstanding performance from Piersanti and a film that makes Hittman a director to watch.
Columbus Alive
3.0
The film is an intimate and tender look at female sexuality that allows for a feminist interpretation of this scenario that has historically been view ..
Google
3.1
She even goes so far as to make up stories of sexual antics that she doesnt quite understand.
Madison Movie
3.5
offbeat visual style ... helps put you inside the mind of the lead character, for whom nothing is clear.
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