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: Faith (2012)
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Cast: Maria Hofstätter, Nabil Saleh, Natalija Baranova, Rene Rupnik, Daniel Hoesl,
Maria Hofstätter
Nabil Saleh
Natalija Baranova
Rene Rupnik
Daniel Hoesl
Plot: For Anna Maria, paradise lies with Jesus, and she devotes her time to door-to-door missionary work. One day after years of absence, her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home—and soon prayers are replaced by fighting.
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