NEVER LET ME GO Trailer

I am a sucker for 'boarding house films.'  From Lindsay Anderson's If... to Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock to Dario Argento's Susperia to Jordan Scott's Cracks.  I am also keen on novelist Kazuo Ishiguro's (Remains of the Day) particular form of mystery-in-plain-sight storytelling.  So fancy that his book Never Let Me Go has been in the capable hands of screenwriter Alex Garland (Sunshine, 28 Days Later) and director Mark Romanek.  The directors only other feature, One Hour Photo, is a model of ominous understatement (and one can only wonder what his Wolfman would have been like if he didn't leave the production early on) which is certainly echoed here but with a much larger canvas and a magnificent cast of young actors (Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley) and veterans (Charlotte Rampling, Sally Hawkins) and a knock out of a central location, the giant mansion called Hailsham.  If you do not know what the story is about, I suggest you avoid reading full synopses, which by the nature of the storytelling are bound to spoil the mystery.  In fact, I am very curious how Romanek is going to pull this off.