Never Let Me Go is director Mark Romanek's second feature film and first since 2002's One Hour Photo and for me it is one of my most highly anticipated films of the year. Starring Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan, Sally Hawkins and Charlotte Rampling the film is a dramatic thriller adapted by Alex Garland (Sunshine and 28 Days Later) from Kazuo Ishiguro's novel revolving around a trio who grew up in a boarding school with no contact or knowledge of the outside world until they discover a dark reality about their past and future. The film opens up picture, actor and director nominee potential but also may be able to land Garland his first Oscar nomination and the same goes for cinematographer Adam Kimmel (Capote).
Synopsis
In his highly acclaimed novel Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day) created a remarkable story of love, loss and hidden truths. In it he posed the fundamental question: What makes us human? Now director Mark Romanek (ONE HOUR PHOTO), writer Alex Garland and DNA Films bring Ishiguro's hauntingly poignant and emotional story to the screen.
Kathy (Oscar® nominee Carey Mulligan, AN EDUCATION), Tommy (Andrew Garfield, BOY A, RED RIDING) and Ruth (Oscar® nominee Keira Knightley, PRIDE & PREJUDICE, ATONEMENT) live in a world and a time that feel familiar to us, but are not quite like anything we know. They spend their childhood at Hailsham, a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. When they leave the shelter of the school and the terrible truth of their fate is revealed to them, they must also confront the deep feelings of love, jealousy and betrayal that threaten to pull them apart.
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