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Never Let Me Go
The dramatic film, which is permeated by romantic situations, begins with a young man named Cathy and his friends Tommy and Ruth, who spent their childhood in Hailsham. Students are encouraged to create a work of art, and their best work reaches the exhibition run by a mysterious woman. One day, a new teacher, Miss Lucy, quietly informs the students of their fate. They are destined to be organ donors and die. Shortly afterwards, she was expelled from school because of her exposure to the fate of the children. Over time, Cathy falls in love with Tommy, but Ruth and Tommy start a relationship and live together for the rest of their time in Hailsham.
15 March 1969, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
20 November 1981, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, UK
17 September 1996, London, England, UK
26 May 1904, Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK
27 April 1976, Dulwich, London, England, UK
1957, Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK
20 August 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA
1980, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, England, UK
1984, London, England, UK
November 05, 2013
a beautifully acted and heartbreaking story of young love, but it opens up more thoughts that just from that angle of storytelling
August 19, 2011
I came to this film knowing nothing about it, except that it was based on the highly-acclaimed novel by Kazuo Ishiguru. I had no foreknowledge of its story or premise-and I'm glad...
October 01, 2010
Never Let Me Go is strangely moving and mournful, but I wish more had been made of the beauty these people are relinquishing, if only as a counterweight to all that artful drear.
April 04, 2011
Although [the] film adaptation does indeed fall short of the brilliance of the source material (and will likely distance viewers even more than the book ever did), it manages to convey the novel's most important themes, and most affecting moments.
November 11, 2013
Emotionally stunted at times, Never Let Me Go gets lost in its own melancholy and fails to live up to its potential.
August 15, 2011
Melancholy and futility define this subtle future-set drama about three children who grow up knowing that they'll never own themselves or their own bodies.
October 08, 2010
Never Let Me Go is gorgeous. And depressing. It's exquisitely acted. And depressing. It's romantic, profound and superbly crafted, shot with the self-contained radiance of a snow globe. And it's depressing.
January 27, 2013
Melancholy, poignant and chilling
September 24, 2010
The emotional impact creeps up on the reader only gradually. Then, bam, it hits forcefully, memorably, and, yes, never lets us go.
October 08, 2010
Oddly cold and detached, as if director Mark Romanek and screenwriter Alex Garland couldn't decide precisely how to interpret Kazuo Ishiguro's popular novel and so they just laid it out flat. And flat it feels.
February 09, 2011
Pretty, empty, and immediately forgettable.
October 07, 2010
Never Let Me Go, director Mark Romanek's introspective adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, is a work of subtle beauty -- a melancholy meditation on the finality of life and the choices we make as our time shortens.