SummaryBorn 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.
Directed By:Cordula Kablitz-Post
Written By:Cordula Kablitz-Post, Friedrich Nietzsche, Susanne Hertel
Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free
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Apr 26, 2018
70
Director Cordula Kablitz-Post, who scripted with Susanne Hertel, effectively presents Lou as neither heroine nor genius but as a flawed, complex, fascinating pacesetter.
Apr 18, 2018
70
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.
Apr 18, 2018
70
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.
Apr 19, 2018
50
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.
Apr 18, 2018
50
While trying to save her from being considered as merely an inspiration to the great men around her, the script inadvertently reinforces this impression.
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Production Company:
- Wild Bunch
- Avanti Media Fiction
- Tempest Film
- KGP Filmproduktion
- Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)
- ARRI Media Productions
- Nordmedia
- Medien- und Filmgesellschaft (MFG) Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg
- BLS Business Location Südtirol-Alto Adige
- Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
- Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF)
- Österreichisches Filminstitut
- Filmstandort Austria (FISA)
- ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen
- Filmfonds Wien
- Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (MiBAC)
- ARTE
- C-Films AG
- Italian Tax Credit
- Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)
- Satel Film
- Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)
- Senator Film Produktion
Release Date:Apr 20, 2018
Duration:1 h 53 m
Awards
Emden International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Socially Relevant Film Festival NY
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
