Brief Lives
Miguel Cane
been almost eight years before Mark Romanek resume his film career after the surprising Portraits One Hour , And numerous video clips of excellent workmanship. never leave me is his third to date (debuted in 1985 with Static ), and as in career advancement logic points higher.
thus presents a film based on the acclaimed novel by Kazuo Ishiguro: in 1978 a group of children lives in an exclusive English boarding school, after year, eventually become Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield. The viewer is witness to its growth, how comes the love triangle between a boy and two girls (Kathy and timid willful Ruth) in a strictly controlled environment and forced to look day after day throughout his life. Of course, too, discover the untold secret hidden in the walls of the school, and that unquestionably condition the lives of the protagonists, and from this revelation, the movie affect the viewer a totally different way than expected.
Obviously, a bomb plot of this size ( find no spoilers here ) can alter the perception of the tape and if I never leave is very clear. During the first twenty minutes playing a particular game and only the prologue to glimpse something dark and disturbing to be left revealing as it moves the plot, demonstrating that this is not a romantic movie either, but it is a story about some unusual facets of love.
Special mention the appearance of Charlotte Rampling (the diva of the unusual) in his few scenes as the school principal, and the prodigious Sally Hawkins, as Miss Lucy, an art teacher who is kind to his students. In fact, it is she who serves as a trigger of the great secret of the plot.
The film follows the transition from childhood to youth, with a sad look very genuine and the apparent 'normality' of children, (echoes of Saura's Raise Ravens ) and Indeed, for these sequences, Romanek uses a cool and restrained style, this has led to the chagrin of some critics who accuse him of lack of artistic risk, however, beyond the obvious stiffness, the film is something else, a outbreak of anxiety about the inevitability of struggle to get out and prevents the tape can be considered sterile.
This is a fable of love and loss, horror and speculative science, true to the ideas of the novel, a monumental drama, and cold (as Cries and Whispers Bergman, for example) as seen in the third act of the film. From there, it is inevitable that viewer to feel a wave of panic and sadness at what he sees: the sequences are stripped from the initial refinement and the ribbon is a new dimension: Kathy, in love, enters into a runaway race against time, destination and horror. So the live audience that follows everything from his chair, eager to leave this dreary game that has come without notice.
never leave me is one of the great novels of the century and ribbon, tailored with devotion by Alex Garland ( Extermination, Sunshine ) achieves its objectives with Machiavellian ruthlessness, using a great job with Carey Mulligan, who is not only an actress, has character and it shows. Romanek restates the ambiguities that he likes and does so with strength and trade: this is a film that lingers in the viscera and consciousness, and that itself makes it a remarkable film that deserves more credit - for its many elements that go beyond its flaws, of which some have given.
Never let me go / Never leave me
With Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley, Nathalie Richard, Sally Hawkins and Charlotte Rampling Mark Romanek directs
UK / EEU 2010
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