A Deeply Personal Movie With a Pointed Political Message
<em>Never Rarely Sometimes Always </em>follows a teenager’s attempt to terminate her pregnancy in a sober, artful story that never feels like a polemic.
At no point does Autumn (played by Sidney Flanigan), the 17-year-old protagonist of , ever say the words “I’m pregnant” aloud. Not to her parents, and not to her cousin Skylar (Talia Ryder), who hears her throwing up before work one morning and connects the dots. She certainly doesn’t announce anything to the boy who got her pregnant, an unseen figure who Autumn recognizes will be unhelpful going forward. In Eliza Hittman’s film, so much goes unspoken partly because Autumn is young and introverted,—terminating a pregnancy safely and privately is against the law for someone her age.
