Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman, March 13,2020) Movie

Julia Holter did the score!

Didn’t care much for Beach Rats but It Felt Like Love is a beautiful film.

 

Now that the possibility of recent releases shifting to VOD has opened up - including another recent Focus release - I really hope we get to see this soon.

I am so excited to see this and initially planned to double feature it with First Cow before it got pushed back a week here.

 

looking forward to this!

 

Sounds like this will be going VOD at some point

Reaching Out #1: Eliza Hittman, Filmmaker

 

VOD on Friday (April 3)

 

this was beautiful

 

Yep. Such a warm yet heartbreaking work. That long take during the questionnaire felt so heavy. This is easily her best film yet.

 

Very excited to watch this

 

Easily the best of 2020 I've seen so far. It'll last for me.

 

This was absolutely heartbreaking and stellar, crazy this is the lead's first role, too. The vitamin C/punching scene was incredibly hard to watch, and that questionnaire scene, man. Loved Beach Rats, but I think I like this more.

 

better on rewatch for me

 

hbo max 10/1

 

This is very good. One of the few movies from this year that I'd implore everyone to watch.

 

The lead actor in the film met the director when their boyfriend was living in a communal house for Juggalos.

As bad of an omen as that is, this was really good.

 

The movie that it reminds me of the most is 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, with the difference being transporting the horrors of seeking an abortion under an authoritarian government to the horrors of seeking an abortion under the crushing exploitation of poverty under capitalism. Both films have the friend being forced to use their sexuality to curry favors, and both let the anonymity of the man responsible linger, as it doesn't ultimately matter because the burden is forced onto women. Hittman has shown her European arthouse influences before, so I am sure she has seen it.

 

There are probably quite a few more who didn't make their position public, along with all the other voters who skip various films for a variety of stupid reasons. You also have to figure in all the dumb reasons not to see a film from the people some of the voters hand off their ballot to, whether it is their housekeeper or grandson or neighbor.

 

Yeah and I’m not so sure how much an 80yo Mormon who said “I don’t watch horror films or movies with graphic sex or gratuitous violence or radical social agendas” is actually that emblematic of the old white male guard as Hittman seems to be claiming lol. Which is not to downplay the sexism that does exist in Hollywood, but it is of a different kind than that one guy, who himself is probably not the most popular guy in town

 

leaving hbo max at the end of the month

 

Shit. Need to watch it.

 

The central scene in this movie, where the title comes from, is full of raw emotion and power. Hittman in general is a promising developing talent; I remember liking It Felt Like Love and feeling that it did not receive enough recognition.