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Opening today at the Angelica and the Landmark on 57th street, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” gets it title from a multiple choice series of questions that a social worker poses to the 17-year-old protagonist of this powerful neo-realist film who has come to New York in search of an abortion. One of the questions that she answers without hesitation is “Have you had anal sex?” The answer is sometimes. However, when she is asked if her boyfriend has beaten her, she pauses for a moment and then begins crying softly.
Directed by Eliza Hittman, it has a 100 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and deservedly so. Its two main characters speak for a generation of young women who have seen abortion rights erode under a relentless attack from the Republican Party. Autumn (Sidney Flanigan), the pregnant girl, works as a cashier in a Western Pennsylvania town that, following the state law, will not permit an abortion unless she has a parent’s signature. When she rushes to the bathroom at work due to morning sickness, her cousin Skylar (Talia Ryder), who works alongside her, follows behind her to see what’s wrong. She learns later that Autumn is two months pregnant.
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