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Paradise: Love

Paradies: Liebe

Austria, Germany, France

2012

130 Min
Color
German
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DIR Ulrich Seidl

PROD Philippe Bober, Christine Ruppert, Ulrich Seidl

SCR Veronika Franz, Ulrich Seidl

DP Edward Lachman, Wolfgang Thaler

CAST Maria Hofstätter, Margarete Tiesel, Inge Maux, Peter Kazungu, Gabriel Mwarua, Carlos Mkutano

ED Christof Schertenleib

SOUND Ekkehart Baumung

Cannes (In Competition)

Synopsis

Paradise tells three stories – about three women, three holidays and three loves. The first woman travels to Kenya as a sex tourist. Out of love of Jesus the second woman tries to bring Catholicism back to the Austrian people. And the third, youngest woman loses her innocence in a weight loss camp. —filminstitut.at

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Ulrich Seidl

Ulrich Seidl was born in Vienna in 1952 and grew up in the town of Horn in Lower Austria. He studied journalism, art history and drama in Vienna, supporting himself with odd jobs, before entering the prestigious Vienna Film Academy at the age of 26. In 1980 he made his first documentary, Einsvierzig. Following the controversy surrounding his second film, Der Ball (1982) – a wickedly satirical portrait of the graduation ball in his home town – Seidl was asked to leave the Film Academy. In 1990 he returned to the scene with the feature-length documentary Good News. Within the decade Seidl was to make seven more documentaries for cinema and television, winning much acclaim and many prizes for his work.

Hundstage – Dog Days, his first fiction film, was released in 2001 and won several important awards, beginning with the grand jury prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2001. The same year also saw the release of Zur Lage / State of… read more

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Andreea Dobre

27May12

Annoyingly ridiculous at times, but with a crushing ending and lot to say! It's like Martin Parr photographs coming to life in an essay on loneliness, lost dignity and so much more... People talked a lot in Cannes about Amour being Haneke's most humane film, but actually it's valid for Seidl's latest as well. He just does it better.

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Marfil

19May12

Aqui, Seidl borra as linhas entre o falso e o verdadeiro para narrar seu tema predileto (a miséria sexual e emocional) com menos desprezo e misantropia do que o habitual, mesmo assim em imagens chocantes, em planos rigorosamente planejados, com apreço pelo desgosto e a tristeza, sem quaisquer modéstia hipócrita, confortável e compassiva. Filma o inferno com frieza insuportável e o chama de Paraíso. Pior: De "amor".

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The first part in a trilogy of films on “paradise” by Austrian director Ulrich Siedl. Love focuses on sex tourism in Kenya.

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Cannes 2012 Review: Ulrich Seidl's PARADISE: LOVE Doesn't Flinch, But You Might

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