Hello and welcome to the film review 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 penn
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
As Nezouh enters cinemas, French cinematographer Hélène Louvart shares her behind-the-scenes insights from lining up shots with the likes of Wim Wenders, Agnès Varda and Alice Rohrwacher.