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  • 2004
  • Kino International
  • 2 h
  • 2004
  • Kino International
  • 2 h
Free Radicals

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 disappear...

Directed By: Barbara Albert

Written By: Barbara Albert

  • 2004
  • Kino International
  • 2 h
  • 2004
  • Kino International
  • 2 h

Free Radicals

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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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 disappear...

Directed By: Barbara Albert

Written By: Barbara Albert

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
58
56% Positive
5 Reviews
33% Mixed
3 Reviews
11% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
58
56% Positive
5 Reviews
33% Mixed
3 Reviews
11% Negative
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75
The parallel stories don't always dovetail with each other smoothly, but the acting is strong and the atmosphere is powerful.
By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW
75
Deftly intercutting between several tenuously-connected lives, Barbara Albert's astringent drama is transformed by bright flashes of compassion.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
70
An intelligent, viscerally intellectual exercise in ensemble acting and associative montage, enlivened with some terrific visual and dramatic ideas.
By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW
60
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.
By Derek Elley FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
30
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.
By Jonathan Rosenbaum FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Coop99 Filmproduktion, Fama Film AG, zero südwest GmbH
Release Date Jul 23, 2004
Duration 2 h
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Website http://www.boesezellen.at/
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Awards

Thessaloniki Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Locarno International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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