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It Felt Like Love (2013)

Unrated  |   |  Drama  |  21 March 2014 (USA)
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Lila wants 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.

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Lila
Giovanna Salimeni ...
Chiara
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Sammy
Jesse Cordasco ...
Patrick
Nick Rosen ...
Devon
Richie Folio ...
Justin
Case Prime ...
Nate
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Lila's Father
Nugget ...
Coffee
Sophia Jurewicz ...
Nate's Girl
Anna David ...
Dance School Attendant
Olivia David-Thomas ...
Dancer
Ashley Huertas ...
Dancer
Andrew McCord ...
Zach
Anthony J. Salimeni ...
Chiara's Dad
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Lila wants 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.

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$8,211 (USA) (21 March 2014)

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$31,173 (USA) (25 April 2014)
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26 July 2014 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

Hittman's beautifully composed sequences could function as still photographs. Not a good choice for a casual viewer looking for a "Spring Breakers" thrill, Hittman's film puts a very fine point on the heavy, achingly quiet loneliness of adolescent girlhood.

Certainly not an experience shared by all, it will still resonate with some: fourteen year old Lila navigates Brooklyn neighborhoods both alone and with her best friend two years her senior, Chiara. In the sweaty late summer nights, she boasts untruths to her younger neighbor and frequently finds herself a third wheel with Chiara and her boyfriend. She chooses to focus her attention upon the older Sammy, a local college kid who grudgingly lets Lila insert herself into his hard-partying scene.

Ebert, in his review, compared the film to the oeuvre of Larry Clark and Harmony Korine: "Clark and Korine's work, whatever their other virtues, often seem to take place in a universe of users and abusers that's devoid of real love, indeed any possibility of anything but a fleeting connection. " It is an apt comparison. It isn't obvious what Lila is looking for, and we as the audience aren't sure if she got what she wanted, either.


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