Never Look Away

6.7

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Original title

Werk ohne Autoraka

AKA

Never Look Away

Year

2018

Running time

188 min.

Country

Germany

Director

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Screenwriter

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Music

Max Richter

Cinematography

Caleb Deschanel

Cast

Sebastian Koch, Tom Schilling, Paula Beer, Lars Eidinger, Rainer Bock, Florian Bartholomäi, Oliver Masucci, Hanno Koffler, Ben Becker, Saskia Rosendahl, Ulrike C. Tscharre, Johanna Gastdorf, Pit Bukowski, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Martin Bruchmann, Jörg Schüttauf, David Schütter, Ina Weisse, Chris Theisinger, Antonia Bill, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Johannes Allmayer, Oleg Tikhomirov, Stefan Mehren, Mark Zak, Martin Baden, Matthias Faust, Andreas Nickl, Cai Cohrs, Viktor Bleischwitz

Producer

Co-production Germany-Italy; Pergamon Film / Wiedemann, Berg Filmproduktion / Beta Cinema / RAI Cinema / ARTE / Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR)

Genre

Drama. Thriller | Nazism

Synopsis / Plot

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.

Awards: 2018: Venice Film Festival: Official Selection

2018: Golden Globes: Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film

2018: Sevilla Film Festival: Official Selection

Critics' reviews

"Works best as a historical drama that explores the complexity of twentieth-century Germany (...) Technically, this is a marvel (...) Richter’s score is lustrous and warm"

Boyd van Hoeij: The Hollywood Reporter
"An epic, intergenerational tale of art, love, tragedy and politics"

Jessica Kiang: Variety
"[It] is more sure of what it wants to say than of how it wants to say it (...) In emphasizing how art allows us to make sense of the past (...) Von Donnersmarck loses his grip on the emotional payoff of the present."

David Ehrlich: IndieWire
"There's something very gratifying about watching an artist discover what he wants to say and how he wants to say it, even when cramped by the society in which he lives (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"

Sheila O'Malley: rogerebert.com
"The approach can be frustrating, but there’s an elegance and richness that sustains 'Never Look Away' even when it becomes so enamored of ideas that its emotions start to feel like an afterthought."

Steve Pond: The Wrap
"[It] is an often moving, thoughtful drama about the correlations between personal experience, politics and art."

Demetrios Matheou: Screendaily
"'Never Look Away' does engage its audience, despite having a three hour eight-minute-long runtime (...) and being a bit too simplistic, explanatory and didactic"

Camillo de Marco: Cineuropa

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