Free Radicals (Bose Zellen)

Free Radicals (Bose Zellen)
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Unrated
  • Run Time: 2 hours
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: March 8, 2005
  • Originally Released: 2004
  • Label: Kino Video

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 552
Rating: 4/4 -- I have seen Barbara Albert's Free Radicals three times now and could surely watch it 10 times more, finding something else on each visit to salve the soul.
Newsday
Jul 23, 2004
Rating: 3/4 -- Brims with energy, carefully drawn characters and fine acting, and sad-eyed Deborah Ten Brink, as Manu's daughter, is a scene-stealer.
New York Post
Jul 23, 2004
Rating: 3/4 -- Deftly intercutting between several tenuously-connected lives, Barbara Albert's astringent drama is transformed by bright flashes of compassion.
New York Daily News
Jul 23, 2004
Rating: 4/5 -- A shattering experience.
Film Threat
Jul 20, 2004
A complex, moving examination of the human condition. Full Review
Film Journal International
Aug 8, 2004
Rating: 3.5/5 -- Albert leaves viewers with the intriguing notion that we're as much at the mercy of measurable physical forces as we are of the irrational. Full Review
TV Guide
Jul 23, 2004
Rating: 2.5/5 -- Aside from a few brief glimmers of hope or happiness, director Barbara Albert piles her compilation of abject misery a bit too high.
Boxoffice Magazine
Jul 23, 2004

Product Description:

A car crash causes the random intersection of various lives in this Austrian film by Barbara Albert. Manu (Kathrin Resetarits) survives a plane crash only to die eight years later on impact with a carload of teenagers. She leaves behind a spooky little daughter Yvonne (Deborah Ten Brink), a grieving husband (Georg Friedrich) who was having an affair with her best friend (Ursula Strauss), her neurotic younger sister (Marion Mitterhammer), a live-in whore for a one-legged old man, and her brother Reini (Martin Brambach)--a physics professor who ties it all together with lectures on fractals and chaos theory. Reini also bonds over fast food with the painfully shy daughter of a lovelorn hausfrau (Gabriela Schmoll). The best moments come from Desiree Oureda as the outcast, Ouija-board wielding schoolgirl who develops a bond with the boy whose bad driving made a quadriplegic of his girlfriend and killed Manu. There's no music score, but characters sing and listen to the radio a lot. The film's clinical examination of ugly middle-class sex (there's lots of rutting and grunting) and consumerism (much of the action occurs at a horrific shopping mall) bears comparison with the work of Lars Von Trier and other European New Wave satirists, but Albert also finds beauty in her drab locations, and poetry in the linking of random, overlapping events, making this also reminiscent of the best of early Robert Altman films.

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  • Sales Rank: 100,620
  • UPC: 738329039721
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