Fiction
LOVELY RITA
Jessica Hausner
Austria, Germany 2001
80 min
V'01
Rita is an unruly outsider: her classmates laugh at her behavior, her teachers find her rude, and her parents lock her in to make her obey. On the verge of becoming a woman, her clumsy sexual awakening leads her to intimacy with a schoolboy, too young, and a bus driver, too old. Her efforts to break out of her solitude isolate her even more, until one day Rita steps across the border.
Credits
- Barbara Osika - Rita
- Christoph Bauer - Fexi
- Peter Fiala - Busfahrer
- Wolfgang Kostal - Ritas Vater
- Karina Brandlmayer - Ritas Mutter
- Jessica Hausner
- Martin Gschlacht
- Thomas Schmidt-Gentner
- Karin Hartusch
- Katharina Hausner
- Tanja Hausner
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35 mm
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