The final installment in Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy, ‘Paradise: Hope’ tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya (‘Paradise: Love’) and her aunt does missionary work (‘Paradise: Faith’), Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight adolescents. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor forty years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire, Melanie had imagined her paradise differently. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 6.7/10 | |
Released: | February 22, 2013 | |
Runtime: | 92 min | |
Genres: | Drama | |
AKA: | Paradies: Hoffnung | |
Countries: | Austria France Germany | |
Companies: | Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH Tatfilm Coproduction Office Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion Société Parisienne de Production Tatfilm | |
Cast: | Michael Thomas Joseph Lorenz Melanie Lenz Verena Lehbauer | |
Crew: | Veronika Franz Ulrich Seidl | |
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