The Lure of Paradise
If I had watched Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy a few weeks earlier, these three films would have made it into my year-end post as one of 2013’s highlights. I first encountered Seidl’s work (the documentary Animal Love and […]
Review: Paradise: Hope (2013)
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Cast: Melanie Lenz, Joseph Lorenz, Verena Lehbauer, Michael Thomas, Vivian Bartsch,
Melanie Lenz
Joseph Lorenz
Verena Lehbauer
Michael Thomas
Vivian Bartsch
Plot: 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.
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