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Never Let Me Go
The three friends Kathy, Tommy and Ruth grow up together in a boarding school in the English countryside. As they approach the stage of youth and departure, the three discover the horrible reality and real purpose of their presence in life. Find that they have to face the feelings of love, jealousy and betrayal that threaten their own friendship, and that they must also adapt to the painful reality that awaits them.
1980, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, England, UK
20 November 1981, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, UK
26 May 1904, Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK
26 March 1985, Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK
23 April 1996, Islington, London, England, UK
27 April 1976, Dulwich, London, England, UK
17 September 1996, London, England, UK
15 March 1969, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
20 August 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA
1984, London, England, UK
1957, Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK
8 August 1952, Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
12 May 1983, Dublin, Ireland
March1996, Hove, East Sussex, England, UK
11 April 1942, Ismailia, Egypt
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...
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.
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 05, 2013
a beautifully acted and heartbreaking story of young love, but it opens up more thoughts that just from that angle of storytelling
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
February 09, 2011
Pretty, empty, and immediately forgettable.
