Paradies: Hoffnung (2013)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 92 minuten
Alternative title: Paradise: Hope
Country:
Austria / France / Germany
Directed by: Ulrich Seidl
Stars: Melanie Lenz, Verena Lehbauer and Joseph Lorenz
IMDb score:
6,6 (5.404)
Releasedate: 8 February 2013
Paradies: Hoffnung plot
"Beyond darkness... beyond desolation... lies the greatest danger of all."
Melanie is Teresa's 13-year-old daughter. While her mother travels to Kenya, Melanie stays with her peers in a strict diet camp during the holidays. Between physical education and nutrition, pillow fights and her first cigarettes, she falls in love with a doctor 40 years her senior, the head of the camp. She tries to seduce him, but the doctor does not return her love. Melanie had imagined her paradise differently. Third part of Ulrich Seidl's Paradies trilogy.
Actors and actresses
Melanie
Arzt
Verena
Sporttrainer
Ernährungsberaterin
Hanni
Tante Melanie
Reviews & comments
frans123
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- 4459 messages
- 1184 votes
I have nothing to do with children.....and certainly not with fat ones...and did not know that the film was full of them. The whole theme did not appeal to me. Turned it off after 6 minutes.. Definitely not my thing, but I realize that is very subjective.
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Dievegge
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- 3203 messages
- 8285 votes
This is the last and, in my opinion, the best part of the Faith, Hope and Love trilogy. The main character is the daughter of the woman from the second part, as is revealed in a telephone conversation. Melanie Lenz plays the obese teenage girl with the same first name. The premise is funny: teenagers are sent to diet camp, but they cheat and are not at all motivated to lose weight. Among themselves, they have conversations that are typical of that age. The turbulence of adolescence provides an alternation of funny, pleasant, painful and desperate moments. Their two supervisors are each other's opposites: the tyrannical physical education teacher and an eccentric doctor who is ashamed of his own tendencies.
The camera is mostly still, often with a symmetrical image of a corridor or a room through which the characters move. Group exercises provide funny images, including the Nordic walking and the song. The sound of forks in the refectory is exploited. The Austrian accent sounds a bit juicier than regular German.
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
My third and last film of the Seidl trilogy in a few days. For me this was the least of the three. Not a bad final film in itself, but I missed a kind of climax. Compared to the other two films also a bit more tame. The film is also a lot shorter and in principle still had enough potential to be further developed.
A film that plays more on suggestion than on crossing certain boundaries. The sexual identity of the youngsters comes forward somewhat and is fantasized about. Camera work is mostly static and observational.
Seidl does it well again to address certain themes. Confrontational and provocative, but never looking for sensation. Great introduction to him!
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