It Felt Like Love
Variance Films | Release Date: March 21, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
76
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Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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100
Los Angeles TimesInkoo KangMar 27, 2014
Hittman's debut isn't just a brilliantly tactile study of the mounting sexual curiosity and frustration of 14-year-old Lila (Gina Piersanti); it's also an important landmark in the oft-ignored subgenre of realistic movies about female adolescence. Read full review
100
Village VoiceChuck WilsonMar 18, 2014
It Felt Like Love is brilliantly, brutally tactile. Read full review
91
The PlaylistKatie WalshMar 16, 2014
It Felt Like Love, marks the arrival of a new crop of talent to watch, behind the camera and in front. Read full review
90
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMar 20, 2014
A mood poem to summer loving and sexual awakening, It Felt Like Love powerfully evokes a time when flesh is paramount, and peer behavior is the standard by which we judge our own. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineChuck BowenMar 16, 2014
Eliza Hittman's film captures the exclusive properties of sex with a degree of intimacy and empathy that, at times, feels authentically revelatory. Read full review
80
NPRElla TaylorMar 21, 2014
Resolutely descriptive, It Felt Like Love doesn't exactly have a plot, which feels absolutely right for a film whose elliptical yet intensely focused visual style seem to flow directly from Lila's consciousness. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzApr 24, 2014
What's exciting about the film is the confidence Hittman brings to it, particularly with her visual choices. The dancing in particular is striking, with surprising cuts and edits. It Felt Like Love isn't a great movie, but it is a promising one, for everyone involved. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeMar 16, 2014
Sadly believable and benefiting from an unshowy performance by first-timer Gina Piersanti, it will have many viewers eager to see what Hittman does next. Read full review
70
VarietyAlissa SimonMar 16, 2014
The writer-director’s stress on the small, degrading details that attend yearning as well as her protagonist’s desperation and self-deception make it more mood piece than straightforward narrative, but the ultra-confident production proves that Hittman’s a talent to watch. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Mar 20, 2014
By the end, audiences may end up craving a more charitable, less dour study of teenage mating habits — one, like the less “realistic” Raising Victor Vargas, that doesn’t portend trauma for any sapling trying to blossom too soon. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzMar 28, 2014
However heartfelt and keenly observed this pessimism is, it becomes monotonous. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfMar 18, 2014
The filmmaker has fallen for some of indiedom’s worst clichés, including our main character’s sad stare out to the ocean, and soft camerawork that’s beginning to sound like a Klaxon: Hug me, hug me, hug me. Read full review
50
The DissolveMike D'AngeloMar 18, 2014
Hittman demonstrates enough talent in It Felt Like Love to suggest that she could make a terrific film. All she needs is an original idea. Read full review
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