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Paradise: Faith

Paradies: Glaube (Paradise: Faith)

2012

Ulrich Seidl

Maria Hofstätter, Nabil Saleh, Natalija Baranova, Rene Rupnik ...

6.4

1,601

Drama In PARADIES: Glaube Ulrich Seidl explores what it means to bear the cross. For Annamaria, an X-ray technician, paradise lies with Jesus. She devotes her vacation to missionary work, so that Austria may be brought back to the path of virtue. On her daily pilgrimage through Vienna, she goes from door to door, carrying a foot-high statue of the Virgin Mary. One day, after years of absence, her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Leslie Felperin Variety	"Willing to challenge auds with startling imagery, ambiguous morality and ruthless black humor. The second part of an interconnected trilogy, this portrait of a middle-aged femme missionary is a bit more accessible than its predecessor"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"This is cinema as decathlon – a string of tribulations to sap your stamina and make your ligaments burn (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Simon Crook Empire	"Part two of Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy is a stark, morally complex study of blind belief, lightened by black laughs and Seidl’s static, deadpan compositions (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	David Fear Time Out	"It’s hard to say if 'Faith' works better as part of a whole instead of a triptych’s single panel until the trilogy is complete, but the unconverted may find this too much of a cross to bear (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Austrian iconoclast Ulrich Seidl delivers one of his more challenging tracts in this screwy reflection on religious devotion"	NEU

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