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The third installment in Ulrich Seidl's PARADISE trilogy, PARADISE: HOPE tells the story of overweight 13-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 teenagers. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor 40 years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire, Melanie had imagined her paradise differently.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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90%- Reviews Counted: 31
- Fresh: 28
- Rotten: 3
- Average Rating: 7.2/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Instead of being contemptuous and sardonic, the portrait of inchoate adolescent longing in "Paradise: Hope" is poignant.
Fresh: Austrian weirdmeister Ulrich Seidl's sometimes grueling but consistently compelling Paradise trilogy concludes on a surprisingly wistful, tender note.
Fresh: The most hopeful - and the best - of this solid and unsettling series.
Fresh: The lightest and best part of Ulrich Seidl's trilogy about three women chasing elusive rewards, the film concludes this often distancing enterprise on an uncharacteristically compassionate note.
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- $19.99
- Genre: Foreign
- Released: 2013
- © 2012 Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion, Tat Film, Parisienne de Production, Arte France Cinema