In Theaters:
Never Let Me Go
At the start of Mark Romanek’s slow-burning, achingly tragic adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go, a few lines appear against a sky-blue screen, coolly informing that “the medical breakthroughs” happened in 1952, and that by 1967 average life expectancy had hit 100 years. We see the narrator, Kathy H. (Carey Mulligan), watching with resignation through a window as a man with a shaved head and a large scar is prepped for an operation. She talks about her being part of some special group which most people have incorrect preconceptions: “We aren’t machines. In the end, it wears you down”…
Never Let Me Go is playing in limited release. You can read the full review at PopMatters.
