2018 · drama
Never Look Away
Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck3h 8m2018
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.
Our read: Never Look Away (2018) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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