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Never Let Me Go (2010): Film vs Book
Film · 2010 · Directed by Mark Romanek · Starring Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley
About the film
Three friends grow up in an English boarding school with a quiet, unsettling purpose, and look back on their closeness as adults.
How close is it to the book?
Very close to the bookThe film follows the book's story and keeps its soft melancholy and its understatement. Much of the narrator's inner voice is turned into silence and images.
Read or watch first?
The book's first-person voice makes the story hurt more, so it is worth reading even after the film.
What the book gives you
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
A beautifully restrained, deeply moving story about friendship, memory and what it means to be human.
Who will like it: Readers who like quiet, haunting stories that stay in your thoughts.