Join us on Thurs 14 May from 7pm (BST), when we’ll be in conversation with director Eliza Hittman discussing
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS (2020) via our Facebook Live page here
Live captioned talks. Film available with captions.
Ahead of the discussion why not read more about Eliza Hittman and watch her debut feature, It Felt Like Love (2013) and Beach Rats (2017) to provide context.
Watch NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS from 13 May – premium release – film available to own on Sky, Amazon, Apple, Virgin, Google, Microsoft, Sony, Chili, Rakuten TV, BT and Talk Talk
27 May – film available to rent on Sky, Amazon, Apple, Virgin, Google, Microsoft, Sony, Chili, Rakuten TV, BT and Talk Talk
Closed captions available on most platforms
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
Beginning with her debut feature, It Felt Like Love (2013) and continuing with 2017’s
Beach Rats, writer/director Eliza Hittman has established herself as an important new
voice in independent film, with a distinctive perspective and exquisitely evocative
cinematic style. Those two films were also remarkable for their clear-eyed, emotionally
authentic approach to portraits of young people at highly charged stages of their lives.
With her highly anticipated third feature, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Hittman again tells a
story that is set in a recognizably real world and grounded in the lived experience of her
characters. Driving the film are its two gifted lead actresses, Sidney Flanigan and Talia
Ryder, both making their feature debuts.
SYNOPSIS
When 17-year-old Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) looks at herself in the mirror, she can see the
signs beginning to manifest in her body. She visits a pregnancy center, where her
apprehensions are confirmed by a positive result on a drugstore pregnancy kit. But the
center’s pamphlets aimed at encouraging motherhood and adoption don’t tell Autumn
what she wants and needs to know.
What Autumn learns about reproductive services through her own research is not
encouraging. As a minor she cannot obtain an abortion in her home state without parental
consent. That leaves her to consider the age-old methods women have turned to when
confronting unintended pregnancies.
Though Autumn keeps mum about her dilemma, her distress is clear to her cousin and best
friend Skylar (Talia Ryder), who sees her every day at school and at their part-time jobs as
cashiers. As soon as she understands Autumn’s situation, Skylar’s support is swift and
decisive, without a word needing to be spoken.
With the address of a Brooklyn clinic in hand, the cousins board an early morning bus
bound for New York City. But their trip takes an unexpected turn when Autumn learns that
a one-visit procedure isn’t possible. As the cousins navigate two fraught days and nights in
an unfamiliar and overwhelming city, their journey becomes one of profound solidarity,
compassion and friendship.
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