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Lovely Rita (2001)

Summary Feeling 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....

Drama

Directed By: Jessica Hausner

Written By: Jessica Hausner

In Theaters Now

2024
Film Movement
1 h 19 m

2024
Film Movement
1 h 19 m

Lovely Rita (2001)

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews

76

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings

6.2

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Summary Feeling 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....

Drama

Directed By: Jessica Hausner

Written By: Jessica Hausner

Where to Watch

Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews

78% Positive
7 Reviews

22% Mixed
2 Reviews

0% Negative
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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews

78% Positive
7 Reviews

22% Mixed
2 Reviews

0% Negative
0 Reviews

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Positive Reviews
Mixed Reviews
Negative Reviews

Mar 15, 2024

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]

By Tim Robey FULL REVIEW

The Independent

Mar 15, 2024

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

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

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.

By Geoff Andrew FULL REVIEW

Mar 15, 2024

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.

By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

The Observer (UK)

Mar 15, 2024

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

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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User Score

Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings

80% Positive
4 Ratings

0% Mixed
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20% Negative
1 Rating

User Reviews

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Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings

80% Positive
4 Ratings

0% Mixed
0 Ratings

20% Negative
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Details

Production Company Coop99 Filmproduktion, Essential Filmproduktion GmbH, Prisma Film- und Fernsehproduktion

Release Date Mar 29, 2024

Duration 1 h 19 m

Genres

Drama

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Awards

Viennale

• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

Max Ophüls Festival

• 1 Nomination

Chicago International Film Festival

• 1 Nomination

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