Never Look Away ( Caloundra Tue Night Screening)

Never Look Away film trailer HERE

Never Look Away  is a 2018 German epic written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.  It was nominated for a Golden Lion  at the Venice International Film Festival  and was nominated for two  Academy Awards, only the second time that a German-language film by a German director was nominated for an Oscar in  multiple categories,  the other film being Das Boot.

Tom Schilling plays Kurt a young painter who lost his neice during the Nazi era. Post war he falls in love with a fellow art student only to eventually discover her father  was a once a fervant Nazi and a Doctor who perfromed sterilizations during the war. Post war he ingratiates himself with the new Communist regime and rises to power once again. 

As Kurt's career takes off,  contact with his father in law becomes more harrowing as truths and secrtes are revealed. 

Based on real events in the life of Gerhard Richter, Germany's greatest post war artist this film is an unforgettable expereince.

" An epic inter generational tale of art, love, tradgedy and politics." Variety Magazine

" A marvel" The Hollywood Reporter