An evocative, beautifully shot film about a little-known proto-feminist intellectual of the late 19th and early 20th century

An involving portrait of a feminist trailblazer.

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.

If [these men] were the ones history books wanted to highlight as geniuses, they would relegate Lou to "muse." But as [the film explains], nothing is further from the truth.

A thoroughly absorbing look at key points in the life of the first female psychoanalyst.

Supremely intelligent biopic about the iconic feminist who held Nietzsche at arm's length but finally took to Rilke, 15 years her junior.