Eliza Hittman Never Rarely Sometimes Always

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Autumn in New York: Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always Includes Théodore Pellerin & Sharon Van Etten

Published on April 15, 2019

True to her previous pair of films and casting process, Eliza Hittman has once again unearthed first time acting talents for her third feature, Never Rarely Sometimes Always. In today’s surprise announcement (Deadline) we learn that newbies Sidney Flanigan and Talia Ryder (who play the young leads) will be surrounded be a supporting cast comprised of Théodore Pellerin (Philippe Lesage’s Genèse), Ryan Eggold, and Sharon Van Etten while Focus Features is onboard as a backer landing world rights to the drama. Producers Adele Romanski and Sara Murphy joined forces with Executive producers Rose Garnett for BBC Films, Tim Headington and Lia Buman for Tango Entertainment, Elika Portnoy and Alex Orlovsky for Mutressa Movies. With filming recently wrapped, this could fall somewhere between Venice Film Festival and next year’s Sundance.

Gist: Faced with a crisis pregnancy, Autumn (Sidney Flanigan), a teenage girl in rural Pennsylvania, realizes she has no options. Risking everything, Autumn and her cousin (Talia Ryder) embark on a fraught journey across state lines to New York City.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).