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Languages: German
Genres: Drama,
Runtime: 1:32:00 Hour
Cast: Melanie Lenz, Verena Lehbauer, Joseph Lorenz
Directors: Ulrich Seidl
Rating: 6.7 (4923 Votes) TomatoMeter: 88 % Audiance Score: 64 % Critics Consensus: After testing viewers' endurance with a pair of discomfitingly bleak films, Seidl concludes his Paradise trilogy on a surprisingly sensitive note.Year: 2013
Summary: 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.
