Eliza Hittman

Eliza Hittman is an American film director and screenwriter known for intimate, social-realist dramas including It Felt Like Love (2013), Beach Rats (2017), and Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020).

Known for intimate social realism, focus on adolescence and female experience, and restrained, observational style.

DeBaser's review praises Never Rarely Sometimes Always for its social-realism approach and restrained, powerful depiction of a teenager seeking an abortion. The review highlights a central, intense intake-room sequence and gestures of female solidarity as the film's emotional core. Overall, the critic reads the film as a realistic, unromanticized portrait rather than conventional empowerment rhetoric.

For:Viewers interested in independent cinema, social-realism drama, and films about women's issues.