2013 Drama
USA
1h 22min
Lila (Piersanti) is a virginal teenager living in Gravesend, Brooklyn, bouncing between killing time at the beach and plodding through hip-hop dance classes. Growing frustrated with her own sexual inexperience, she sets her sights on local hunk Sammy (Rubinstein), a college boy rumored to sleep around indiscriminately, towards whom she makes increasingly awkward and unwanted advances. Rather than embodying the clichés of teenage sexual awakening or youth in peril narratives, IT FELT LIKE LOVE presents its protagonist as something far rarer, a young woman with complicated motives intent on claiming her own sexual agency.
| Directed by | Eliza Hittman |
| Written by | Eliza Hittman |
