Saturday Short

Film Poster

Today, Saturday Short features the trailer for Lou Andreas-Salome, The Audacity to be Free (Cinema Libre Studio, April 20, 2918), appearing in the United States this week. Directed by Cordula Kablitz-Post, the film, which premiered in March in New York City, takes a look at the German polymath Lou Andreas-Salome, who was a novelist, psychoanalyst, and pioneering feminist, a disciple of Freud, and the muse and lover of Friedrich Nietzsche and Rainer Maria Rilke.

Read a review of the film in Hyperallergic and posts about Andreas-Salome at brainpickings and World Literature Today.

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