With me, mark kermode, rounding up the best new movies available for viewing in the home. From eliza hittman, writer director of the brilliant beach rats, comes another drama that manages to combine the gritty authenticity of a documentary with the poetic sensibility of pure cinema. That looks like a positive. If its positive, is there any way it could be negative . No. A positive is always a positive. In Never Rarely Sometimes Always, hittman investigates an urgent contemporary issue but does so through a coming of age story that presents a perfectly observed portrayal of female friendship. Sidney flanigan is autumn, a 17 year old from pennsylvania who discovers that she cant get an abortion in her hometown without parental consent. Quietly desperate, she travels to new york with her cousin, played by talia ryder, where these young women find themselves effectively living on the streets while waiting for the procedure that autumn was denied in pennsylvania. Wheres the rest of the mone
Of coercion and abuse, these questions and responses they elicit which include significant silences speak volumes, not only about autumns experiences but also about those of the many women who, for whatever reason, find themselves in a similar situation. Dont you everjust wish you were a dude . All the time. With reproductive rights currently under attack in the us, hittmans film, which includes scenes of anti abortion protesters, strikes a particularly timely note. But it never wears its politics on its sleeve, focusing instead on the day to day reality of these young womens lives and the growing bond between them. Hittman describes her film as first and foremost, a narrative about a girl carrying around a lot of pain and urgent and the loneliness of it all. Unobtrusively lensed by Helene Louvart and combining the melancholy realism of midnight cowboy with the humanist art of the dardennes, Never Rarely Sometimes Always is a remarkable film from an Outstanding Film maker honest, truth
Hello this is bbc news. The headlines a senior aide to the uk Prime Minister faces calls to resign after he travelled hundreds of miles with his wife who had virus symptoms during the lockdown. The government defended him, saying he wanted to stay with family to ensure he had childcare if he got symptoms of coronavirus. Businesses will be expected to pay a quarter of the wages of furloughed workers from the start of august. And guernsey becomes the first part of the British Isles to remove nearly all its lockdown restrictions. The pakistan govenrnment launches an official inquiry to investigate the plane crash that killed at least 97 people, but the Pakistan Pilots Association says it has no faith in the official investigation. Spains Prime Minister, pedro sanchez, says overseas visitors can visit the country from july and top flight spanish football will resume behind closed doors next month. Now on bbc news, talking movies looks at the impact of the cancellation of this years Cannes
How freeing do you think it is for someone how freeing do you think it is for someone to discover this perhaps later in life . We talk a lot about people coming out when theyre teenagers, but it sounds like she almost surprised yourself . teenagers, but it sounds like she almost surprised yourself . I think that happens to people all the time, they come out at all different points in life. We do have a typical narrative that says you have a certain age where you discover who you are, you come out in your early 20s. But thats not how it is for a lot of people, and i think its also wonderful visibility for people who come out later in life. Now on bbc news, its time for the film review. Hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. To take us through this weeks cinema releases is james king. A warm welcome and happy new year, talk us through what weve got. We have scarlettjohansson heading to germany injojo rabbit. Matthew mcconaughey goes to london in the gentlemen. And Aaron Eckha
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