Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free

Name: Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Released: April 20, 2018
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Alexander Scheer, Helena Pieske, Julius Feldmeier, Katharina Lorenz, Katharina Schüttler

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Cinema Libre Studio | Release Date: April 20, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Alexander Scheer, Helena Pieske, Julius Feldmeier, Katharina Lorenz, Katharina Schüttler, Liv Lisa Fries, Matthias Lier, Merab Ninidze, Nicole Heesters, Philipp Hauß

Summary: Born 1861, Lou Andreas Salomé shuns traditions in pursuit of intellectual perfection, inflaming the hearts and minds of the early 19th Century's greatest thinkers including Friedrich Nietzsche, the poet Rainer Marie Rilke and Sigmund Freud.

Director: Cordula Kablitz-Post

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 113 min

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Gary Goldstein

Apr 26, 2018

Director Cordula Kablitz-Post, who scripted with Susanne Hertel, effectively presents Lou as neither heroine nor genius but as a flawed, complex, fascinating pacesetter. Read full review

Abbey Bender

Apr 18, 2018

Salomé would be better served by a story that focuses more explicitly on her intellectual life rather than on her personal one, but considering how stodgy biopics can be, Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to Be Free offers a mostly engaging portrait of a charismatic and brilliant figure. Read full review

John DeFore

Apr 18, 2018

Though Cordula Kablitz-Post's feature debut Lou Andreas-Salome, The Audacity to be Free views this very unconventional woman through the conventions of the biopic, its drama benefits from a viewer's ignorance of her story. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Apr 18, 2018

Beyond what the film says and represents, it’s also well made. Read full review

Jay Weissberg

Apr 18, 2018

While trying to save her from being considered as merely an inspiration to the great men around her, the script inadvertently reinforces this impression. Read full review

Teo Bugbee

Apr 19, 2018

Throughout, the writer and director Cordula Kablitz-Post asserts Andreas-Salomé’s commitment to her own independence. But Ms. Kablitz-Post’s focus on Andreas-Salomé’s suitors has the effect of chaining the early feminist’s legacy to exactly the patriarchal conventions she claims to reject. Read full review

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FrankBeck

Apr 22, 2018

I knew about Andreas-Salome's connection with Rilke and Freud but didn't understand what an important figure she was in her own right. Cordula Kablitz-Post tells her story with impressive cinematic freedom, giving it a powerful emotional charge. It's a biopic that might actually have beenI knew about Andreas-Salome's connection with Rilke and Freud but didn't understand what an important figure she was in her own right. Cordula Kablitz-Post tells her story with impressive cinematic freedom, giving it a powerful emotional charge. It's a biopic that might actually have been liked by its subject. Warmly recommended.… Expand

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