Infos

Original title : Paradies: Hoffnung
Directed by : Ulrich Seidl
Release date: 1 May 2013
Duration: 91 minutes
Genre: Drama
Country : Austria, France, Germany (2013)
Original language: German

 Synopsis

The third film in Ulrich Seidl's PARADISE trilogy tells the story of Melanie, an overweight 13-year-old, and her 
 
first love. While her mother, Teresa, travels to Kenya ("PARADISE: Love"), and her aunt ("PARADISE: Faith") does 
 
missionary work for Jesus Christ, the teenager spends her summer vacation with other adolescents in a strictly 
 
run diet camp in the Austrian countryside. Between sports activities and nutritional counseling, pillow fights 
 
and her first cigarettes, she falls in love with the camp director, a doctor 40 years her senior. She loves him with 
 
the unconditionality of first love, and tries in total innocence to seduce him. The doctor struggles against the 
 
guilt of this love, aware of its impossibility. Melanie had imagined her paradise differently.

 

Paradise : Hope .

 

 

 


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