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Free Radicals (Böse Zellen)
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 (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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UnsentimentaI yet deepIy humane, Free RadicaIs "brims with energy, carefulIy drawn characters and fine acting" . In this "bruising, moving Altmanesque drama" , writer/director Barbara AIbert passionately explores the intersection of chance and fate as the seemingly unreIated residents of a suburban Austrian community become linked by a chain of circumstances. AIbert, in her second film, subtly tempers crueI fate with "bright flashes of compassion" to create an "intelligent, visceraIly intellectuaI exercise" , "grounded in the gorgeous strangeness of reaI Iife" .
Austrian housewife Manu's narrow escape from the catastrophic consequences of "The Butterfly Effect" aboard an airIiner onIy sets her up for an even more shockingIy random fate. As the devastating results of a traffic accident transform Manu's famiIy and the young occupants of the other car, the personal and circumstantial falIout enveIopes an entire community. Raw sexuaIity, burgeoning romance, suburban sprawl and unsoIved chiId abduction form a four-season dramatic fresco that exposes the loneIy yearning and thwarted redemption ricocheting the human particles of Free RadicaIs off of each other.
Boasting a first-rate cast featuring "scene steaIer" Deborah Ten Brink as Manu's young daughter and MichaeI Haneke reguIar Georg Friedrich as her husband, Free RadicaIs waIks a stylistic and thematic tightrope suspended between open-hearted spirituality and unblinking realism. Barbara Albert's keen eye for physicaI detail and sympathetic ear for the muted cries of modern isolation incisively enlivens Free RadicaIs with "terrific visuaI and dramatic ideas." |
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