Three features about three women from one family make up the remarkable Paradise Trilogy, a triptych of award-winning European arthouse dramas from the celebrated (if controversial) Austrian director Ulrich Seidl (Import/Export). To celebrate the DVD release of this critically acclaimed series, we have Three copies of Seidl's beautifully packaged Paradise Trilogy box set to give away to a our world cinema-loving army of readers, courtesy of our friends at esteemed independent UK distributor Soda Pictures. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.
The first in the trio, Paradise: Love centres on a middle-aged woman, Teresa (Margarete Tiesel), who travels to Kenya on a sex-tourism journey. Her trip has one goal: carnal satisfaction. Paradise: Faith follows devout Catholic Anna Maria (Maria Hofstätter) and her draconian spiritual journey,...
The first in the trio, Paradise: Love centres on a middle-aged woman, Teresa (Margarete Tiesel), who travels to Kenya on a sex-tourism journey. Her trip has one goal: carnal satisfaction. Paradise: Faith follows devout Catholic Anna Maria (Maria Hofstätter) and her draconian spiritual journey,...
- 10/4/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
‘Paradise: Faith’ screenings in Los Angeles and New York draw Catholic protests (photo: Maria Hofstätter in ‘Paradise: Faith’) "Oh boy. People are picketing our box office in protest of Paradise Faith." That’s a tweet by Cinefamily, referring to the Wednesday, August 28, 2013, screening of Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Faith at the Silent Movie Theater in West Hollywood. Part two of Seidl’s "Paradise" trilogy — which began with the Cannes Film Festival entry Paradise: Love and ends with Paradise: Hope — Paradise: Faith was co-written by Seidl and Veronika Franz. The stark drama revolves around a Viennese woman (Maria Hofstätter) who happens to be both the wife of a paraplegic Muslim man (Nabil Saleh) and an ardent Catholic, along the lines of the religiously demented Hazel Motes from Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood. Ulrich Seidl: More merciless than Michael Haneke "Mr. Seidl’s eye is even more merciless — some would...
- 9/2/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Between Love and Hope: Seidl’s Second Film of Paradise Trilogy a Harrowing Hilarity
In what has to be the most significant auteur helmed cinematic motif project since Kieslowski’s Three Colors, Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy blazes on with the second installment, Paradise: Faith, which follows Love. Those familiar with the Austrian director’s previous work, such as a 2004 documentary, Jesus, You Know, should hardly be surprised by the droll, black comic sensibility of his latest effort, which, by the end of its course, will have given us three interrelated stories about women that are difficult to like or empathize with. Many will be turned off at how Seidl often times uses his protagonists for ridicule, but one could argue that this may really just be our own discomfort with the consumption of materials not glossed over with euphemism. His work, often compared to fellow Austrian Michael Haneke for its austerity and flirtatious misanthropy,...
In what has to be the most significant auteur helmed cinematic motif project since Kieslowski’s Three Colors, Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy blazes on with the second installment, Paradise: Faith, which follows Love. Those familiar with the Austrian director’s previous work, such as a 2004 documentary, Jesus, You Know, should hardly be surprised by the droll, black comic sensibility of his latest effort, which, by the end of its course, will have given us three interrelated stories about women that are difficult to like or empathize with. Many will be turned off at how Seidl often times uses his protagonists for ridicule, but one could argue that this may really just be our own discomfort with the consumption of materials not glossed over with euphemism. His work, often compared to fellow Austrian Michael Haneke for its austerity and flirtatious misanthropy,...
- 8/21/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
TItle: Paradise: Faith (Paradies: Glaube) Magnolia Pictures Director: Ulrich Seidl Screenwriter: Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz Cast: Maria Hofstätter, Nabil Saleh, Natalya Baranova, Rene Rupnik Screened at: Critics’ Vimeo 7/9/13 Opens on DVD October 18, 2013 There is this expression “the world would be a better place if people would learn to just sit quietly in a room.” As Ulrich Seidl’s movie “Paradise: Faith,” the second in the director’s trilogy, begins, we think that the principal character, Anna Maria (Maria Hofstätter), is such an ideal person. After all, when she leaves her job as a lab technician, she tells her co-worker that she is going on vacation, and that she is [ Read More ]
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- 7/9/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
★★★☆☆ Ulrich Seidl's Paradise: Faith (Paradise: Glaube, 2012), the second chapter in the Austrian's Paradise trilogy, begins with a semi-naked hausfrau flagellating herself in front of an effigy of Christ - and just gets stranger. Powerful in parts, yet raw and uncomfortable for long stretches, Faith suffers from many of the same pitfalls as previous offering Love - in particular, Seidl's non-judgemental handling of his morally-suspect characters. Leaving the sex tourist-plagued beaches of Kenya far behind, we return to Vienna to follow the story of devout local Catholic Anna Marie (a commendable Maria Hofstätter).
On vacation from her day job as a kindly X-ray technician, Anna Marie (sister to Love's Teresa) takes it upon herself to spread the word of Jesus Christ to the sinners around her, parading a foot-high statue of the Virgin Mary with her as she goes. Her primary 'target' are Vienna's immigrant populace - some God-fearing, some...
On vacation from her day job as a kindly X-ray technician, Anna Marie (sister to Love's Teresa) takes it upon herself to spread the word of Jesus Christ to the sinners around her, parading a foot-high statue of the Virgin Mary with her as she goes. Her primary 'target' are Vienna's immigrant populace - some God-fearing, some...
- 7/4/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Paradise: Faith is the second instalment in Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy, sandwiched in between Love and Hope. However much like its predecessor, the term ‘faith’ is ironically implemented, as a loose and somewhat sardonic use of the word, as we explore the trials and tribulations of a woman battling against her loyalty to the Catholic church.
Anna Maria (Maria Hofstätter) is a lonely middle aged Austrian woman, who has devoted her life to Jesus Christ, intensely and passionately abiding by the teachings of the Bible, methodically self-punishing herself to prove her dedication and commitment to her religion. Though working as a nurse, in her spare time she goes door to door to preach the Catholic religion to her neighbours – a vocation that often leads to distress and violence. As such she begins to question her own allegiance to the church, which is challenged even further with the return of her handicapped,...
Anna Maria (Maria Hofstätter) is a lonely middle aged Austrian woman, who has devoted her life to Jesus Christ, intensely and passionately abiding by the teachings of the Bible, methodically self-punishing herself to prove her dedication and commitment to her religion. Though working as a nurse, in her spare time she goes door to door to preach the Catholic religion to her neighbours – a vocation that often leads to distress and violence. As such she begins to question her own allegiance to the church, which is challenged even further with the return of her handicapped,...
- 7/3/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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