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population
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part of it
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squeezer
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families are alike”
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containers
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choice
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FILM REVIEW| JOE MORGENSTERN
Life or Death
In Few Words
Two young women travel to New York
to terminate an unexpected pregnancy
WHAT WE SEEin a work
of art depends on how we
look at it. That’s certainly
true of Eliza Hittman’s
“Never Rarely Sometimes
Always.” The subject is ex-
plosive—a pregnant 17-year-
old, Autumn (Sidney Flani-
gan), travels with her
cousin and best friend Sky-
lar (Talia Ryder) from rural
Pennsylvania to New York
City in search of a safe
abortion. And the film-
maker’s point of view is qui-
etly but passionately pro-
choice. Still, this tough-
minded, forthright and
exquisitely tender film tran-
scends polemics. It’s the od-
yssey of a lost child in
poorly charted territory.
When she first appears
on camera Autumn is sing-
ing, quite disastrously, the
Exciters’ “He’s Got the
Power” in a high-school tal-
ent show. There’s so much
glitter on her eyelids that
she can barely blink, but
her demeanor is mournful,
her delivery plaintive. Does
she already suspect that
she’s pregnant? Maybe so,
which gives the lyrics a spe-
cial irony: “He’s got the
power, the power of love
over me.”
Later, after her unin-
tended pregnancy has been
established, we watch her,
again in close-up—Ms. Hitt-
man is a poet of faces—dur-
ing the counseling session
that gives the film its title. A
woman at a Planned Parent-
hood facility in New York
presents a series of state-
ments meant to gauge any
history of sexual abuse: Your
partner, she recites without
adding emotional emphasis,
has threatened, or fright-
ened, or slapped, or physi-
cally hurt you. Autumn must
respond in each case withNever, Rarely, Sometimes or
Always. Those are the only
words she needs. They be-
speak a whole life of loneli-
ness and pain in the most
affecting interview sequence
I can remember since a
young boy poured out his
heart to an unseen ques-
tioner in François Truffaut’s
“The 400 Blows.”
It’s hard to believe this is
Ms. Flanigan’s acting debut;
she conveys Autumn’s
strength as eloquently as
her fears. Ms. Ryder is su-
perb too. She makes Skylar
a bit more worldly than hercousin, though hardly an ur-
ban sophisticate. Both girls
need each other desperately
and support each other
fiercely when they get to
New York with little money
and nowhere to stay.
Coming as it does in the
midst of white-hot contro-
versy over women’s repro-
ductive rights, “Never Rarely
Sometimes Always” will be
as provocative as it intends
to be. The woman who made
it wants us to feel some of
the bewilderment and terror
Autumn feels, and wants to
show some of the perils thatconfront her from the mo-
ment she realizes that she’s
pregnant. Autumn can’t con-
fide in her remote mother
or hostile stepfather—
they’re played, respectively,
by Sharon Van Etten and
Ryan Eggold—and she can-
not, as a minor, get an abor-
tion in Pennsylvania without
parental consent. Turning
for help to the internet,
with its inexhaustible store
of misinformation, she does
horribly risky things to her-
self until she decides on a
bus trip to New York with
Skylar as her companion.
(Hélène Louvart did the ex-
cellent cinematography.)
Look at Ms. Hittman’s
film from one angle and it’s
a cautionary tale about the
dangers of restricting ac-
cess to abortion. From an-
other it’s an apology for a
widely reviled procedure.
Suspend judgment, however,
and it’s a story of stirring
loyalty and fierce friendship
between two kids who know
next to nothing about the
world, and so little about
the city around them that
they play tic-tac-toe with an
amusement-arcade chicken
and lose. Autumn has been
hapless and heedless—no
argument about that—but
she’s dreadfully vulnerable
and terribly dear. Skylar is
no student of human behav-
ior either, but she’s clever
enough to extract needed
money from an unnamed
guy the girls first meet on
the bus, then again in New
York. He’s played by Théo-
dore Pellerin, and his part
in the drama is much more
innocent than it sounds.
“This city has a lot of se-
crets,” he tells them ear-
nestly. “Subterranean lev-
els.” So does the film. It
needs to be seen.FOCUS FEATURES (2)
Sidney Flanigan as Autumn, above; Talia Ryder as Skylar, topUNIVERSAL STUDIOS
Hilary Swank as Athena and Betty Gilpin as Crystal‘THE HUNT”occupies a
special place in the chocka-
block landscape of movie
junk. This gleeful, gross-out
gorefest looks as tacky and
violent as its trackdown
plot would suggest, and
lives up to certain parts of
its bad reputation. It is also
funny, genuinely topical, ex-
tremely shrewd and, heaven
help us, slyly wise. I liked it
quite a lot.
A thriller directed by
Craig Zobel from a script
by Nick Cuse and Damon
Lindelof, the film was sup-
posed to hit the multi-
plexes in September, but its
opening was canceled after
mass shootings in Dayton,
Ohio, and El Paso, Texas.
Understandably so, since
the last thing the nation
needed at the time was a
big-screen blowout in
which hunters pursued and
killed human prey. (The
story is yet another itera-
tion of “The Most Danger-
ous Game.”) And rightly so
if you believed what some
people said. Conservatives
castigated the production
after learning that the
hunters were liberal elites
who called their prey De-
plorables. President Trump
denounced it, sight unseen,
as a movie that was made
“in order to inflame and
cause chaos.”
Now “The Hunt” is fi-
nally upon us, and the nay-
sayers’ impassioned nays
prove to be prime examples
of what the movie is
about—the profusion of re-
flexive suppositions in to-
day’s toxic media surround,
where getting things wrong
doesn’t matter as long as
you’re convincing, suffi-ciently entertaining or even
sincere in your invincible
wrongness.
Yes, the hunted are De-
plorables, but nowhere near
as deplorable as the self-de-
clared elites, who are so ex-
quisitely and punctiliously
condescending that they re-
fer to their less-privileged
brethren as “ignorami.” Ev-
eryone has the courage of
their prejudices, nothing is
what it seems, and every-
one gets things wrong in
this scattershot satire that’s
distantly related to “Mis-
sion: Impossible” and “The
Truman Show,” and is to
“Parasite” what “The Bev-
erly Hillbillies” was to “Up-
stairs, Downstairs.” The
pleasures wear thin after a
while, but they include apig wearing a shirt; a battle
to the death, accompanied
by Beethoven, in which the
most lethal weapon is a
Cuisinart blade; a blue-
state dominatrix named
Athena (Hilary Swank) and,
most impressively, a red-
state Terminator named
Crystal who is played, for-
midably well, by Betty Gil-
pin. When Crystal spins a
Tarantino-esque tale about
a jackrabbit and a box tur-
tle, you may think “The
Hunt” has suddenly turned
hypnotic, and you won’t be
wrong at all.FILM REVIEW| JOE MORGENSTERN
‘The Hunt’:
Stalking Satire
Liberal elites
pursue right-
wingers in Craig
Zobel’s sly gorefest