<em>Never Look Away</em> Is a Grim and Gorgeous Epic
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Oscar-nominated German drama is worth every minute of its three-hour run time.
“Never look away,” an aunt tells her nephew. “Everything that is true is beautiful.” The aunt’s advice is somewhat complicated by the fact that she is stark-naked playing the piano, and the nephew she is encouraging to continue watching her is 5 years old. She is beautiful but, as this episode attests, not always in her right mind.
The year is 1937, the locale is Germany, and soon enough “Aunt Elisabeth” (Saskia Rosendahl) will again tell her nephew to
