Never Look Away
aka Werk ohne Autor
First screened in February 2019
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Cast: Tom Schilling, Paula Beer, Sebastian Koch, Saskia Rosendahl, Oliver Masucci, Hanno Koffler, Cai Cohrs, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Ulrike C. Tscharre, Jörg Schüttauf, Jeanette Hain, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Ina Weisse, Lars Eidinger, Johanna Gastdorf, David Schütter, Franz Pätzold, Jonas Dassler, Jacob Matschenz, Florian Bartholomäi, Ben Becker, Oskar Müller, Mina Herfurth, Juta Vanaga, Mark Zak, Bastian Trost, Rainer Bock, Antonia Bill, Sebastian Rudolph, Inga Birkenfeld, Lisa Hoffmann. Screenplay: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

 Twitter Capsule: So heavy and yet so hollow, to degrees rarely seen since Benjamin Button. Shockingly overscaled and underrealized.

VOR: ②  Chacun son bloated, unenlightening painter biography that isn't quite a biography, but is, but isn't. Ponderous in technique, unsteady as storytelling.


Photo © 2018 Sony Pictures Classics/Pergamon Film/
Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: D–

Academy Award Nominations:
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Cinematography: Caleb Deschanel

Golden Globe Nominations:
Best Foreign Language Film
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