Paradies hope
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| Original title | Paradies hope |
| Country of production | Austria , Germany , France |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Ulrich Seidl |
| script | Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz |
| production | Ulrich Seidl |
| camera |
Wolfgang Thaler , Ed Lachman |
| cut | Christof Schertenleib |
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Paradise: Hope is a film by Austrian director Ulrich Seidl from 2013. It is about a chubby 13-year-old who visits a diet camp during the summer holidays and falls in love for the first time. The film is the last part of Seidl's Paradise trilogy . It had its premiere in the competition at the 63rd Berlinale .
action
While Melanie's mother is on vacation in Kenya, the overweight girl is attending a diet camp in the Austrian change mountains . Everyday life in the camp is characterized by sporty drill, rationed meals and nutritional advice. Away from the eyes of the supervisory staff, pubertal problems are discussed, the first cigarettes are smoked and night raids into the kitchen are carried out. Finally, Melanie also falls in love with the doctor and camp director, who is around forty years older. The doctor is torn between the duty of professional distance, which he has to maintain, and his emotions, which become stronger and stronger against his will. In the end he forces himself to give her a "ban on contact". She is not allowed to talk to him or approach him for the rest of the stay.
background
The Paradies project was originally intended to consist of only one feature film with three storylines. Only in the course of post-production did Seidl decide to split the stories into three films. The titles of the films are reminiscent of both the three theological virtues and the drama Faith, Love, and Hope by Ödön von Horváth . In an interview, Seidl at least points out that the latter inspired him very much in his youth.
The film premiered on February 8, 2013 as part of the competition at the Berlin International Film Festival . The year before, Paradise: Love had already been shown in the Cannes competition and Paradise: Faith in the Venice competition . The trick of being represented with three different films at the three most important A festivals in the world within less than 12 months was only achieved by Krzysztof Kieślowski with his three-color trilogy .
Reviews
“In contrast to the first two visions of hell in the Paradise trilogy, Seidl - whose imagery you can usually see that he was inspired by Goya and Hieronymus Bosch in his youth - this time are paradisiacal images that immediately make sense. (...) The latest film in his trilogy is the cheerfulest, the brightest, yes, the most humane. "
“Paradise: Hope has become a typical Seidl film again, a pitiless look at human failure. And yet it differs from its two predecessors in several ways. On the one hand, behind the dreary scenario of anti-pleasure discipline and ritualized humiliation lies the eponymous hope. This is mainly due to the age of the protagonist, who, at least in theory, is still lucky, while her mother and aunt have long since lost hops and malt. On the other hand there is paradise: in terms of narrative hope, but also the most straightforward and concentrated feature film of Seidl to date. "
“With the final film of the trilogy, hope enters Seidl's merciless bourgeois hell, and of course the first question that arises is whether the filmmaker will just as unmovedly abandon the young protagonist Melanie, daughter of the sex tourist Teresa and niece of the prayer sister Anna Maria, to decay would like their older relatives. Or, to put it another way: Is Seidl's view of hope just as sarcastic, sometimes even cynical, as that of love and faith, which had nothing heavenly to offer? The answer is, somewhat surprisingly, rather no. "Paradise: Hope" portrays a niche in the world that is in no way inferior to the unlivable petty bourgeois nightmares of "Paradise: Love" and "Paradise: Faith", and yet Seidl stages the end of his trilogy as a light-flooded, airy, often almost tender film. "
Web links
- Paradise: Hope in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website for the Paradise Trilogy in the web archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Ulrich Seidl (PDF; 3.1 MB), Paradise: Love Press Kit, accessed on February 10, 2013
- ↑ Paradise: Hope in the Berlinale Competition on berlinale.de, accessed on February 10, 2013
- ↑ Jörg Schöning: Filmprovokateur Seidl: A fat child makes you happy. spiegel.de, February 10, 2013, accessed on March 20, 2013 .
- ↑ Michael Kienzl: Paradise: Hope. critic.de, February 9, 2013, accessed March 7, 2013 .
- ↑ Jochen Werner: Hyper, Hyper. perlentaucher.de, May 15, 2013, accessed on May 19, 2013 .