One director's return to form: 'Never Look Away' puts Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck back in Oscar's graces.
As tall as his name is long, with a baby face crowned with a thick shock of curly hair, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck folded his 6-foot-9 body awkwardly into a chair in a Santa Monica Mexican restaurant on a warm late-January afternoon. The German filmmaker had just flown in from New York, where he was promoting his latest film, "Never Look Away," and his back was aching from contorting himself into an airline seat. But he wasn't complaining.
While the constant travel and nonstop events of awards season can become a wearying hamster wheel, Von Donnersmarck was bursting with enthusiasm to discuss "Never Look Away," a sweeping drama that has earned a foreign language Oscar nomination and is itself bursting with themes of art, love and politics.
"This is a film about things that I really care about and I like thinking about, so it's
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