NEW YORK – Even progressively minded movies about abortion have usually focused on the morality of the decision.
Eliza Hittman wanted to make a film where the highest hurdle isn’t deciding to have an abortion. It’s getting it. “For me, it was about the obstacles.
I think a lot of films focus on destigmatizing the abortion,” says Hittman. “They show it as a need and a necessity of woman’s life, but they don’t show how hard it is for the majority of women in this country to access them.” “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” Hittman’s third feature film, is about a 17-year-old named Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) who can’t get an abortion in her rural Pennsylvania town without her parents’ permission.