Paradise: Hope

(2013)

★ 6.2 IMDb · 132 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2013

Runtime: 92 мин

Country: France, Germany

Director: Ulrich Seidl

Cast: Melanie Lenz, Joseph Lorenz, Verena Lehbauer, Майкл Томас, Vivian Bartsch, Johanna Schmid, Maria Hofstätter

Plot

Her mother in Kenya, 13-year-old Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp set in the Austrian countryside. Between workouts and nutrition classes, pillow fights and first cigarettes, she falls in love with a doctor 40 years her senior.

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.