Never Rarely Sometimes Always Review Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020), a film by Eliza Hittman, and starring Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Théodore Pellerin, Sharon Van Etten, Ryan Eggold, Aurora Richards, Rose Elizabeth Richards, Mia Dillon, Drew Seltzer, Brian Altemus, and Lizbeth MacKay. If resilience is a positive American trait, then women seeking out abortions are the most American among us. Never Rarely Sometimes Always, …...
- 4/6/2020
- by Jacob Mouradian
- Film-Book
Three films into her career, filmmaker Eliza Hittman continues to prove herself as one of contemporary cinema’s most empathetic and skilled chroniclers of American youth. Hittman’s trio of features — “It Felt Like Love,” “Beach Rats,” and “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” her first studio effort — have all zoomed in on blue-collar teens on the edge of sexual awakening, often of the dangerous variety. Hittman’s ability to write and direct such tender films has long been bolstered by her interest in casting them with fresh new talents, all the better to sell the veracity of her stories and introduce moviegoers to emerging actors worthy of big attention.
The backwards — or, at least, stuck-in-time — attitudes of the film’s small-town Pennsylvania setting are laid bare in its opening credits, as quiet teenager Autumn sings at a high school talent show mostly populated by students wearing costumes more suited to a...
The backwards — or, at least, stuck-in-time — attitudes of the film’s small-town Pennsylvania setting are laid bare in its opening credits, as quiet teenager Autumn sings at a high school talent show mostly populated by students wearing costumes more suited to a...
- 1/25/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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