Free Radicals (2004)

After surviving a plane crash, the blandly contented suburbanite Manu is killed in a head-on collision that is as tragically banal as her earlier accident was miraculous. Ricocheting between these two poles of the mundane and the fantastic, the forces of fate that stem from Manu's death begin to knit a rich tapestry of chance, choice, and emotion among the disparate array of people connected to her in life. Like P.T. Anderson's Magnolia, Austrian director Barbara Albert's FREE RADICALS is a character mosaic that is both a trenchant critique of an anemic, modern world as well as a reminder of the irrational threads that hold it together. More »

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