60
Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Village VoiceAbbey BenderVillage VoiceAbbey BenderSalomé 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.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThough 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.
- 70Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinDirector Cordula Kablitz-Post, who scripted with Susanne Hertel, effectively presents Lou as neither heroine nor genius but as a flawed, complex, fascinating pacesetter.
- 67The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakBeyond what the film says and represents, it’s also well made.
- 50VarietyJay WeissbergVarietyJay WeissbergWhile trying to save her from being considered as merely an inspiration to the great men around her, the script inadvertently reinforces this impression.
- 50The New York TimesTeo BugbeeThe New York TimesTeo BugbeeThroughout, 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.