SummaryFeeling confined by her well-mannered suburban environment, the pubescent Rita gradually attempts to test and break the expectations made of her. As she skips class to pursue her infatuation for a local bus driver as well as her own desires, her disapproving parents and classmates begin to question the motivation behind her provocations. However,... Read More
Directed By:Jessica Hausner
Written By:Jessica Hausner
Lovely Rita (2001)
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Generally Favorable
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
78% Positive
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Mar 15, 2024
80
This is a film of piercingly perceptive moments, even if, as some say of Haneke's own work, it is cold to the core. [28 Dec 2001]
Mar 15, 2024
80
This black comedy about the travails of the teenage Rita (a marvellously taciturn Barbara Osika) captures beautifully the awkward ugliness of adolescence before a brutal final punch. [11 Aug 2001, p.8]
Mar 15, 2024
80
Shot on digital video with a non-professional cast, Lovely Rita intelligently conveys the stifling nature of Rita's home and educational environments, and benefits from refusing to spell out character motivations. Newcomer Osika's subtle and often wordless central performance, meanwhile, seals the film's success.
Mar 15, 2024
80
Osika is perfect as Rita, half-child, half-woman, but then Hausner's cool, compassionate, naturalistic script, reminiscent of early Fassbinder, gives her plenty to play with.
Mar 15, 2024
80
The point is not motive, it isn't the elucidation of the human mind; it is more the simple juxtaposition of horror and bourgeois normality as a kind of Neurotic Realist motif: sinister, enigmatic, disquieting.
Mar 15, 2024
60
It's performed by a non-professional cast, who all seem a little tense, and the rebellious Rita is an unsympathetic, inadequately characterised figure, though not unconvincing. [30 Dec 2001, p.12]
Mar 15, 2024
60
While not the most exhilarating 80 minutes, this is a movie that will find much identification with anyone whose teenage years were remotely angst ridden, with Hausner capturing the simmering tensions of suburban life with assured ease.
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May 22, 2024
3
Gosto do estilo, mas chega um momento que já sabemos que a câmera dará mais um close do nada, e o que era para contribuir à narrativa vira simples "toc". Tudo isso, se tivesse uma boa história, ok, mas é incrível como desperdiçam a naturalidade das atuações e situações para um roteiro que não diz muita coisa, e ainda apela para a tragédia. Faltou sustância.
Production Company:
- Coop99 Filmproduktion
- Essential Filmproduktion GmbH
- Prisma Film- und Fernsehproduktion
Release Date:Mar 29, 2024
Duration:1 h 19 m
Awards
Viennale
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Max Ophüls Festival
• 1 Nomination
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
