Never Look Away is compelling, compassionate, thoughtful, and a tad too long for its own good. It's just less generally captivating to watch a guy try and find his artistic voice when his life has all this other potent drama afoot, and that's even after the lingering fallout from a forced abortion and hidden Nazi searches. The length (3 hours 8 minutes) gets to be unwieldy, especially during the third hour when we visit our second art school education. The simple strokes of a love story, or the disapproving father trying to destroy their love story, or the efforts of the family post-war to find some foothold in a new East Germany, it all adds up to a deeply felt and deeply alluring human drama with plenty of breathing room.

of that very same doctor, now being protected by a high-ranking Soviet official he aided. This gets even more complicated when he goes to college and starts secretly dating the daughter.

His free-spirited aunt, an inspirational figure, is abducted due to her schizophrenia and ultimately sentenced to death by an SS-enabling doctor (Sebastian Koch). It balances many emotions and tones as it presents a rich portrait of a young man's life set across a fascinating backdrop. It's a sprawling yet intimate human drama that has a full range of emotions, from the swooping romance to the heartbreak. Going back to his native language, the director traces the life of a young, daring Dresden artist, loosely based on Gerhard Richter, trying to find his sense of self and truth from the reign of the Nazis to the GDR under Soviet influence. Seeing his name attached to any movie was enough to secure my ticket. This is only the second film for writer/director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck since his 2006 Oscar-winning masterpiece, The Lives of Others.

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