NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS: OVERCOMING THE OBSTACLES
There is a scene midway through Eliza Hittman's soul-provoking new movie Never Rarely Sometimes Always that is wrenching in its simplicity. The 17-year-old girl at the center of the film, Autumn (Sidney Flanagan), has come from her home in rural Pennsylvania to New York City to get an abortion. She and her cousin Skylar (Talia Ryder) have blown through their money while waiting for an appointment at a Planned Parenthood clinic. They are hungry, exhausted, disheveled, emotiona