A young Austrian survives the crash of a commercial airliner. Six years later, she's a clerk, a mother, and happy. Then she dies in a car accident. Over the next year, her daughter goes through various medical blood tests, her husband is having an affair with her best friend, her sister trades sex for shelter, her brother is tiptoeing around a friendship with an emotionally-locked clerk whose mother is lonely, and an unpopular high-school student has bad skin. The daughter ha... (Full plot summary below)
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A young Austrian survives the crash of a commercial airliner. Six years later, she's a clerk, a mother, and happy. Then she dies in a car accident. Over the next year, her daughter goes through various medical blood tests, her husband is having an affair with her best friend, her sister trades sex for shelter, her brother is tiptoeing around a friendship with an emotionally-locked clerk whose mother is lonely, and an unpopular high-school student has bad skin. The daughter has her eye on a certain boy--the very one who was driving the car in the fatal crash. In happenstance are there patterns? In life is there meaning?
Leave your thoughts about Free Radicals.
| Film Journal InternationalEric MonderA complex, moving examination of the human condition. |
| NewsdayJohn AndersonI 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. |
| TV GuideKen FoxAustrian 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. |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenAlthough Free Radicals overflows with messy feelings, it maintains such a measured distance from the gathered cries and whispers that it is difficult to empathize with the characters' fears and sorrows. Most of the women are victims, most of the men selfish pigs, and their stories are jarringly punctuated by brutish, joyless bouts of sex. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatFree Radicals portrays the subtle and fragile strands that link our lives to those of others in ways we cannot even begin to imagine. |
| User Reviewphorest bAn awesome, awesome movie. Intelligent, touching, bold. A veritable slice of (many) lives. |
| User ReviewKaylea CI love it - the tender humor, the sadness, the hope. |
| User ReviewCarri DPropels you to ponder the order (or randomity) of our very existences, and to question the level at which interaction with others only amplifies our inherent loneliness, and how society has brainwashed us into believing we must be with someone else in order to find happiness instead of finding our own inner guidance and peace. An examination of how that sense of confusion and loneliness leads us to search outside ourselves, to others or to "God" to find answers and meaning to the whole bloody fiasco called life. It is Altmanesque, with a dark Austrian perspective, finding humor in the places in which we are most embarrassed to laugh. In short, existential and slightly depressing, as all existential movies are. |
| User ReviewShangri LI saw this movie a long time ago. I really liked it, I want to watch it again but I can't find it. |
| User ReviewSimon Dthis is a pic that asks for repeat viewing |
