IT FELT LIKE LOVE

By Eliza HITTMAN

GÖTEBORG FILM FESTIVAL - as DISTR VOD, SWEDEN

Drama - Completed 2013

A young girl endangers herself by naively bragging about false sexual experiences.

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2013
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    • Year of production
    • 2013
    • Genres
    • Drama, First film
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 82 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Eliza HITTMAN
    • Writer(s)
    • Eliza HITTMAN
    • Producer(s)
    • Eliza HITTMAN, Laura WAGNER, Shrihari SATHE
    • Synopsis
    • Fourteen-year-old Lila is experiencing an ennui-filled Brooklyn summer. She awkwardly wears a Kabuki-esque mask of sunscreen at the beach and plays third wheel to Chiara, her more experienced friend, and Chiara’s boyfriend, Patrick. Determined to have a love interest of her own, a bravado-filled Lila pursues Sammy, a tough but handsome older boy. Though Sammy doesn’t respond to her overtures, he doesn’t reject her either, and Lila—unable to resist spinning delusional fables of a relationship with him—manipulates herself deeper into his world. When her desperation and posturing carry her too far into unfamiliar territory, her inexperience is exposed, and she is forced to confront reality.