Film Comment Talk: Eliza Hittman on Never Rarely Sometimes Always

We are delighted to welcome director Eliza Hittman for a discussion about her new film, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, and her already rich body of work. In Never Rarely Sometimes Always—winner of a Special Jury Award at Sundance and Berlin—17-year-old Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) journeys to New York City with her cousin Skylar (Talia Ryder) to seek an abortion. “Hittman’s feeling for adolescence is extremely intuitive, and her approach—in It Felt Like Love, Beach Rats, and now Never Rarely Sometimes Always—is not abstract, sentimental, or intellectual. She is not tempted by melodrama or polemic. Her interest is sensorial and experiential: it’s all about textures and faces, behaviors and silences, how destabilized everything is when you’re young and hormonal and inexperienced . . . She’s in the thick of it with her teenage characters.” (Sheila O’Malley, Film Comment March/April 2020).

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