Never Let Me Go (2010)

Recommended
UK/USA

Feature Film

Director: Mark Romanek

Writers: Alex Garland, Kazuo Ishiguro

Cinematographer: Adam Kimmel

Composer: Rachel Portman

Cast: Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley, Isobel Meikle-Small, Charlie Rowe, Ella Purnell, Charlotte Rampling, Sally Hawkins, Kate Bowes Renna

Three childhood friends, genetically engineered and raised solely for the purpose of providing organs for donation to the general populace, form a love triangle and grow submissively (though vaguely hopefully) towards their grisly fates, in Romanek’s handsome, well-acted piece of allegorical sci-fi/alterna-history, which, in the same century that gave us the Nazis, proves as depressingly plausible in a literal sense in its lack of hysteria and outrage as it does as a metaphor for our own mortality. Iain.Stott