“Sticking exactly to every fact and chronology tends to weaken something,” says director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ‘Citizen Kane’ would be a lesser film if it were called ‘Citizen Hearst.” Never Look Away (Werk ohne Autor), about an artist with a more than passing resemblance to Gerhard Richter, has just been nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film. (The New Yorker, 1/21/19)
Sticking exactly to every fact and chronology tends to weaken something
