Paradise: Hope
Overview
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.
Released:
December 18, 2013
Genre:
Drama
Country:
Austria, France, Germany
Duration:
1h 32m
Cast:
Alexia Greimel, Arabel Aigner, Ines Götz, Joseph Lorenz, Maria Hofstätter
Director:
Ulrich Seidl
