Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Kiera Knightley, Isobel Meikle-Small, Charlie Rowe, Ella Purnell, Charlotte Rampling, Sally Hawkins |
| Director |
Mark Romanek |
| Screenplay | Alex Garland, from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Music | Rachel Portman |
| Cinematography | Adam Kimmel |
| Editing | Barney Pilling |
| Sound formats | Dolby |
| Made in | 2010 |
| Produced by | DNA Films, Film4, Fox Searchlight Pictures |
Official Site | IMDB page
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| Genre | Drama |
| Language | None |
| Nudity | Brief scenes of sexual nudity, exposure of breasts |
| Sex | Some scenes of moderate simulated sex with suggestive sounds, references to sex, persusal of a pornographic magazine |
| Violence | Disturbing surgical procedures, sustained intense tons of threat and menace, emotional and psychological |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | Sad haunting themes. |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Christy Lemire  Melancholic coming-of-age tale | 10 |  |
| Die Burger Paul Boekkooi Inroverte meesterstuk aangrypend | 20 |  |
| Cape Times Stephen Farber Clone love story slow to spark any life | 10 | |
| Box Office Pam Grady This is an elegant production, but one that lives or dies on the strength of its characters and performances; it delivers on both counts. | 18 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert This is such a meditative, delicate film. I heard some snuffling about me in the darkness. These poor people are innocent. They have the same hopes everyone has. It is so touching that they gladly give their organs to humankind. Greater love hath no man, than he who gives me his kidney, especially his second one. | 20 | |
| eye Weekly Jason Anderson Intelligent, visually distinctive and featuring strong performances by its three young leads, this dystopic tale also proves to be disappointingly inert as a dramatic work. | 10 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli When it comes to observing its central three characters, Never Let Me Go rarely stumbles but in filling in the blanks around them and developing the world and society of which they are victims, the movie (even more than the book) leaves us hanging. The story is in a way a victim of its own inventiveness in that it provides a fascinating backstory that is addressed only in throw-away lines and insignificant subplots. | 13 |  |
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers Here's a movie you can't get out of your head, a sci-fi horror story with the seductive allure of a classic romance. The melancholy attached to the impermanence of life and love suffuses this film, making it memorably haunting and hypnotic. | 18 | |
| ScreenIt C. Fuchs The performances from the youngsters and the better-known young adults are all fine, but they're stuck swimming upstream in what's otherwise a sinking ship. And since that vehicle is going down rather than forward, the momentum drags and the overall experience becomes tiresome, especially when you're more likely to be questioning the whys rather than feeling for the characters' horrible plight. | 8 | |
| Metacritic.com 37 critics | 14 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 144 critics | 14 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer With Never Let Me Go, Mark Romanek has delivered a graceful adaptation that captures the spirit of the Ishiguro novel -- which will be precisely the problem for some viewers. | 14 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 13630 Netizens A mixed reaction to an abridgment of greatness | 15 | |
Average .. 71% | 14 | |