Lou Andreas-Salomé — a novelist, essayist, and psychoanalyst who won the hearts of Freud, Nietzsche, and Rilke — led an almost infinitely varied life.

Cordula Kablitz-Post's biopic 'Lou Andreas-Salome' introduces a woman whose distinguished career wound its way through those of Nietzsche, Freud and Rilke.

Noted early-20th-century writer and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé gets the kind of crushingly conventional biopic she doesn’t deserve.

Get past its cumbersome title and you’ll find an absorbing, well-drawn biopic in “Lou Andreas-Salomé: The Audacity to Be Free,” an intriguing look at how a Russian-born novelist, poet and ...

Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to Be Free is an awkward mouthful of a title, but this biographical study of a trailblazing nineteenth-century intellectual offers a worthwhile history lesson ...

Lou Andreas-Salome was considered a brilliant peer of Sigmund Freud and one of the founding mothers of psychoanalysis. The toast of 1912 Vienna, the celebrity author and intellectual wrote more ...

Later, when Andreas-Salome's voice chimes in, the pair settle into a more introspective exchange, one frequently troubled by the insecure poet's vascillation between elation and despondency.

Laura Marling nominates the first female psychoanalyst, Lou Andreas-Salomé. Folk singer-songwriter, Laura has been unravelling the mysteries of Russian-born Lou Andreas-Salomé ever since she ...

Get past its cumbersome title and you’ll find an absorbing, well-drawn biopic in “Lou Andreas-Salomé: The Audacity to Be Free,” an intriguing look at how a Russian-born novel… ...

There’s a great line spoken by an aged Lou Andreas-Salomé (Nicole Heesters) to new friend and potential biographer Ernst Pfeiffer (Matthias Lier) upon his praise-fueled declaration that the way she ...