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Photo: 2020 Focus Features, LLC Eliza Hittman is a filmmaker whose movies tackle taboos with equal amounts of care and confidence. Her first two dramas explored sex and sexuality from completely different perspectives: The first, It Felt Like Love , dealt with a young woman’s troubling sexual awakening at the hands of older boys; several years later, Hittman released Beach Rats, which followed a Brooklyn teen’s existential crisis of sexuality.
The film is squarely focused on the structural effects of patriarchy: how women must contend, often painfully, with the laws and prohibitions created by men in power. But it haunts the film on a more intimate level, too, as the girls encounter a series of aggressive, misogynistic men who harass and threaten them along their way.
I spoke with Hittman and Flanigan in early March, a few weeks before New York issued its stay-at-home order to slow the spread of coronavirus, canceling the movie’s March 13 theatrical release. We discussed the film’s initial reception, Hittman’s inspiration for writing it, and what sorts of conversations she hopes to spur with its release.Eliza Hittman: I started thinking about the film in 2012.
Hittman: I wanted to explore a tension in the environment that exists for young women. I think that when you’re a young woman you begin to become aware of the ways in which men can make advances, and encroach upon your personal space and life. You begin to develop an awareness and defenses, and ultimately kind of become desensitized to it. But it’s a moment in these young women’s lives where they are becoming aware of this.
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