In Love with Lou

Friedrich Nietzsche admired her, Rainer Maria Rilke loved her, Sigmund Freud worshiped her… Was Lou Andreas-Salomé a writer or a muse, a feminist or a femme fatale? The new film by Cordula Kablitz-Post looks at one of Europe’s most influential intellectuals - and at her complicated life.

New ideas spread across Europe like summer lightning in the years before World War I and Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1936) bridged those worlds of philosophy, literature and psychology, making contributions to each one. Her novels and criticism challenged readers to rethink gender roles, and she became a pioneering psychoanalyst.

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