She wants him to always think for himself — to never look away. "It's an important sentence, and it accompanies our protagonist, the artist, through his whole life," von Donnersmarck says.

Margaret Moth appears in 'Never Look Away' by Lucy Lawless, an official selection of the World Documentary Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Institute.

“Never Look Away” gives us as complete a portrait as seems humanly possible, for which Lawless merits abundant credit. Trouble is, some people quite simply are unknowable — even by those who ...

Those exes and colleagues serve as the primary narrators of "Never Look Away," a new documentary directed by Lucy Lawless that attempts to give Moth the kind of hagiography that her eventful life ...

The title of “Never Look Away” is deliciously ironic: This is one of the most mesmerizing, compulsively watchable films in theaters right now. Written and directed by Florian Henckel von ...

"Never Look Away" begins as the evolution of a style. But in its sweep and finely tuned focus, it chronicles the emergence of a self - fully realized and finally capable of wresting meaning from a ...

‘Never Look Away’ Review: Lucy Lawless Directs a Generic Documentary About a Fearless War Reporter. The 'Xena: Warrior Princess' actress creates a sketchy portrait of Margaret Moth in a film ...

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In Never Look Away—its original German title, Werk Ohne Autor, translates as Work Without Author—Tom Schilling, who at certain camera angles resembles the youthful Richter, ...

Never Look Away persuasively argues that she never felt more alive than being close to death — a cliche in fictional war films, perhaps, but true of Moth and many of her colleagues.