Free Radicals

Name: Free Radicals
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: July 23, 2004
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 58

2004

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Kino International | Release Date: July 23, 2004

Summary: After being the lone survivor of a gruesome plane crash, Manu (Resetaritis) returns to a small Austrian town and successfully rebuilds her life. Five years after the near-fatal accident, Manu is surrounded by family members, friends, husband and a lovely young daughter. But for the sake of destiny - or chance - Manu's good luck disappears.After being the lone survivor of a gruesome plane crash, Manu (Resetaritis) returns to a small Austrian town and successfully rebuilds her life. Five years after the near-fatal accident, Manu is surrounded by family members, friends, husband and a lovely young daughter. But for the sake of destiny - or chance - Manu's good luck disappears. (Kino International)… Expand

Director: Barbara Albert

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Runtime: 120 min

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David Sterritt

The parallel stories don't always dovetail with each other smoothly, but the acting is strong and the atmosphere is powerful. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Deftly intercutting between several tenuously-connected lives, Barbara Albert's astringent drama is transformed by bright flashes of compassion. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Brims with energy, carefully drawn characters and fine acting. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Austrian auteur Barbara Albert uses complex mathematics, chaos theory and the music of Dutch pop sensation A-Ha to explore the connections that link a group of disparate characters. Read full review

Derek Elley

An often compelling drama, marbled with dry humor and flecked with the supernatural, that provides food for thought but doesn't quite reach the brass ring. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Despite the melodramatic plot twists, there's little emotional resonance to the proceedings, and the film's attempts to link them in metaphysical fashion prove overly ambitious and pretentious. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

At first I thought this was a Michael Haneke knockoff, but it's more depressing and less edifying than most of those narrative experiments, which is why I eventually tuned it out. Read full review

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ChadS.

Jan 21, 2006

The ghost in "Free Radicals" is so benign, only a book award committee for genre; like science-fiction, like horror, would acknowledge the supernatural presence as being a part of their literary heritage, even though the storyline is ultimately all-encompassing. "Free Radicals" also wants The ghost in "Free Radicals" is so benign, only a book award committee for genre; like science-fiction, like horror, would acknowledge the supernatural presence as being a part of their literary heritage, even though the storyline is ultimately all-encompassing. "Free Radicals" also wants to be the arthouse "Pretty in Pink". There also seems to be a tip of the cap to Catherine Breillat, "Fat Girl, in particular, when we see the barely legal underdog get it on with the big man on campus. Is it a coincidence that A-ha's "Take on Me" came out the same year as the John Hughes youth classic? I think not. While watching "Free Radicals", I was reminded of psuedo-horror novels like Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones" and Stewart O'Nan's "The Night Country", two books with ghosts as its protagonist that are used in a non-horror fashion. If there is a flaw in the script, it's the fact that the boy behind the wheel never seems to acknowledge the crash's second victim, who faced a even more deadly consequence. The filmmaker wants her multiple storylines to brush up against each other, not to intersect, but this reproach of conscience feels a little convoluted.… Expand

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