Plot
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.
Written by
Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz
Directed by
Ulrich Seidl
Crew
Production Countries
Germany, Austria, France
Production Companies
Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion, Tatfilm, Société Parisienne de Production
Languages
Deutsch
Awards
2 nominations