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PARADISE: HOPE
The third installment in Ulrich Seidl’s PARADISE trilogy, PARADISE: HOPE tells the story of overweight 13-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya (PARADISE: LOVE) and her aunt (PARADISE: FAITH) does missionary work, Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor 40 years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire, Melanie had imagined her paradise differently.
Tying up his trilogy in style, Seidl’s film unsettles and provokes with wit and composure
– Empire Magazine
“Compelling… Tender”
– Variety
“Some of the best evocations of the excruciating inarticulacy of first love that we’ve seen”
– IndieWire
“There is a new humanity to Seidl’s work; it could be his best film so far”
– The Guardian
DIRECTOR:
Ulrich Seidl
WRITER:
Ulrich Seidl
Veronika Franz
PRODUCER:
Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH
CAST:
Country of Origin: Austria/Germany/France
Format: DCP/1.85/Color
Sound Format: Dolby Digital SRD
Running Time: 92 minutes
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Rated
In German with English Subtitles
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