It Felt Like Love

Director: Eliza Hittman, Eliza Hittman

2013 / 82min / Digital

There’s not a single false moment in It Felt Like Love, Never Rarely Sometimes Always director Hittman’s feature debut about a sexually inexperienced south Brooklyn teenager (Gina Piersanti) who’s so embarrassed to fess up to everything she doesn’t know about sex that she’ll submit to nearly any embarrassment to cover up her inexperience. An extraordinarily perspicacious depiction of a certain kind of inadvertently stifling, glum upbringing—and the manner of joyless rebellion that it invites.

Q&A with Eliza Hittman September 16