Never Let Me Go
As children, Ruth, Kathy and Tommy spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves for the haunting reality that awaits them.
1984, London, England, UK
20 August 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 May 1983, Dublin, Ireland
5 February 1946, Sturmer, Essex, England, UK
1957, Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK
26 May 1904, Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK
26 March 1985, Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK
27 April 1976, Dulwich, London, England, UK
28 May 1985, Westminster, London, England, UK
March1996, Hove, East Sussex, England, UK
15 March 1969, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
11 April 1942, Ismailia, Egypt
17 September 1996, London, England, UK
1980, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, England, UK
6 January 1963, Paris, France
January 27, 2013
Melancholy, poignant and chilling
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.
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.
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...
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.
February 09, 2011
Pretty, empty, and immediately forgettable.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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.
