NEVER LET ME GO (Do not leave me ) by Mark Romanek, 2010
Probably because of the blue, from Romanek, video director and mediocre One Hour Photo, all I would have imagined, but a movie like this, Never let me go hit hard. Adapted from a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro (which unfortunately I have not read), set in a dystopian near past, the film tells the story of three boys, grew up in the same institution, the legendary college of Hailsham, and the delicate and complicated relationship that develops between them once become adults. The real strength of Never let me go resides in the calmness with which it is represented the poignant drama of the love story of Kathy, Tommy and Ruth, a classic triangle, almost a romance of another era, in which the ' fiction is wisely left alone on the edge, as background, useful for shaping the tone of irreversibility and inevitability that permeates the film, to focus instead on the players. The rigor of formal and thematic structure that serves as the film is immediately clear from the opening, the screen filled with the light pastel colors of the short titles to attract the beautiful photography Adam Kimmel until the measured directed by Romanek that slight brushing, plasma rhythm and tone of the story never tread in the hand, without giving in to sentimentality's sake, in a dramatic story like this, is a risk which would be too easy to fall. Risk avoided thanks to the screenplay by Alex Garland (itself already a novelist and screenwriter 28 days after and Sunshine) who adapted the novel for the screen with a rare delicacy, but above all thanks to the performance of three protagonists. Alchemy and the harmony between the three young actors is palpable, but if Andrew Garfield is perfect (not that, after Boy A, the Red Riding Trilogy and The Social Network there was any doubt) and so inadequate in the role of the adolescent and Tommy Keira Knightley is more credible than that of the centralized and dominant Ruth, Kathy is a Carey Mulligan that, in addition to being the narrator of the story, leaving an indelible mark in the register of the film, thanks to an incredible interpretation, resigned, sad, heartbreaking of melancholy, the film seems to really make a direct offshoot of its moods . Never let me go was a wonderful surprise for me, a little gem, exciting and engaging, one of those movies that makes you think what really means to be human.
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