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  • 2018
  • Cinema Libre Studio
  • 1 h 53 m
  • 2018
  • Cinema Libre Studio
  • 1 h 53 m

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.

Directed By: Cordula Kablitz-Post

Written By: Susanne Hertel, Cordula Kablitz-Post

  • 2018
  • Cinema Libre Studio
  • 1 h 53 m
  • 2018
  • Cinema Libre Studio
  • 1 h 53 m

Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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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.

Directed By: Cordula Kablitz-Post

Written By: Susanne Hertel, Cordula Kablitz-Post

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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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33% Mixed
2 Reviews
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70
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.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Abbey Bender FULL REVIEW
67
Apr 18, 2018
Beyond what the film says and represents, it’s also well made.
By Jared Mobarak FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Teo Bugbee FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Jay Weissberg FULL REVIEW

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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
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Website http://www.louthefilm.com/
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Awards

Emden International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Socially Relevant Film Festival NY
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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