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Paradise: Hope
Beyond darkness... beyond desolation... lies the greatest danger of all.
Beyond darkness... beyond desolation... lies the greatest danger of all.
Drama - 2013
Paradise: Hope
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Hope, the third film in the PARADISE TRILOGY, tells the story of the 13-year-old Melanie. While her mother (Teresa) travels to Kenya, Melanie spends her holiday in the Austrian countryside at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers. Under the supervision of a tattooed trainer and a creepy doctor, the teenagers attempt to do sports during the day and secretly get drunk in the evening. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the doctor who is 40 years her senior.
Director:
,
Ulrich Seidl
Cast:
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Michael Thomas
,
Vivian Bartsch
,
Melanie Lenz
,
Verena Lehbauer
,
Joseph Lorenz
,
Johanna Schmid

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Rated:
UNRATED
Runtime:
92 min
Release date:
8 Feb 2013
Country:
FR, DE, AT
Languages:
German
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$6,701
Awards:
2 nominations.

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
This tale of a creepy pedophilic relationship is the most tender, nuanced, and deeply felt picture Seidl has ever made.
– Mike D'Angelo,
AV Club,
5 Dec 2013
fresh:
The most hopeful - and the best - of this solid and unsettling series.
– Betsy Sharkey,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Dec 2013
fresh:
Instead of being contemptuous and sardonic, the portrait of inchoate adolescent longing in "Paradise: Hope" is poignant.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
16 Dec 2013
fresh:
If this trilogy capper doesn't leave the contusions the other films have, it remains a necessary salve, particularly if you dare to binge-watch.
– Michael Atkinson,
Village Voice,
17 Dec 2013
fresh:
This is, by some distance, the best movie of the three, and it showcases the impeccable symmetry of [Seidl's] compositions, while retaining his compulsion to wag a finger in your face.
– Farran Smith Nehme,
New York Post,
20 Dec 2013
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