Grand Finale: Seidl’s Final Chapter Strikes Surprisingly Tender Notes
With Paradise: Hope, the crowning chapter of Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise Trilogy, the provocateur surprises us with perhaps the only way he possibly could after two emotionally grueling chapters—a stroke of tenderness. That’s not to say that Hope is less uncomfortable or bleak as Love and Faith, but for once his addendum seems less harshly skewed, even if our lead character’s illusion of hope is just as cursory. A thrillingly good equal to its sister films, Seidl tantalizes here by subverting our expectations based on his previous work, giving us a modestly sweet afterglow after we’ve gnawed our way through the sour and sublime.
While her mom is off in Kenya exploring sex tourism and her aunt Anna Maria suffers through a summer rendezvous with religion, thirteen year old Melanie (Melanie Lenz), known as Millie to her friends,...
With Paradise: Hope, the crowning chapter of Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise Trilogy, the provocateur surprises us with perhaps the only way he possibly could after two emotionally grueling chapters—a stroke of tenderness. That’s not to say that Hope is less uncomfortable or bleak as Love and Faith, but for once his addendum seems less harshly skewed, even if our lead character’s illusion of hope is just as cursory. A thrillingly good equal to its sister films, Seidl tantalizes here by subverting our expectations based on his previous work, giving us a modestly sweet afterglow after we’ve gnawed our way through the sour and sublime.
While her mom is off in Kenya exploring sex tourism and her aunt Anna Maria suffers through a summer rendezvous with religion, thirteen year old Melanie (Melanie Lenz), known as Millie to her friends,...
- 12/18/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Paradise: Hope (Paradies: Hoffnung) Strand Releasing Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on RottenTomatoes.com Grade: B Director: Ulrich Seidl Screenwriter: Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz Cast: Melanie Lenz, Verena Lehbauer, Joseph Lorenz Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 11/ Opens: December 17, 2013 in NY It’s great to be a teen. It’s miserable to be a teen. Kids between the ages of 13 and 19 have more energy than they will likely have when they get older, but their brains are not fully developed and, as neurologists tell us, people are not capable of making entirely ethical choices until that development comes at about the age of twenty-five. “Paradise: Hope,” the [ Read More ]
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- 11/23/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
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Only God Forgives (18)
(Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013, Fra/Thai/Us/Swe) Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm, Tom Burke. 90 mins
The Drive dream team are back together in Bangkok, but those hoping for a cute Gosling droolathon will be disappointed. This is more a cinematic slab of red meat: lean, raw, bloody and blunt, but with much to savour. Executed with great formal rigour, it's a stylised revenge story centred on Gosling's almost mute gangster, his terrifying mother (Scott Thomas) and an even more terrifying Thai cop (Pansringarm).
The Heat (15)
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Buddy sparks inevitably fly when Bullock's uptight FBI agent is partnered with McCarthy's foul-mouthed Boston cop, in a comedy that serves up plenty of female-oriented crudity,...
Only God Forgives (18)
(Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013, Fra/Thai/Us/Swe) Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm, Tom Burke. 90 mins
The Drive dream team are back together in Bangkok, but those hoping for a cute Gosling droolathon will be disappointed. This is more a cinematic slab of red meat: lean, raw, bloody and blunt, but with much to savour. Executed with great formal rigour, it's a stylised revenge story centred on Gosling's almost mute gangster, his terrifying mother (Scott Thomas) and an even more terrifying Thai cop (Pansringarm).
The Heat (15)
(Paul Feig, 2013, Us) Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy, Demián Bichir. 117 mins
Buddy sparks inevitably fly when Bullock's uptight FBI agent is partnered with McCarthy's foul-mouthed Boston cop, in a comedy that serves up plenty of female-oriented crudity,...
- 8/3/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Paradise: Hope
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Writer(s): Seidl & Veronika Franz
Producers: Seidl, Christine Ruppert, Philippe Bober
U.S. Distributor: Strand Releasing
Cast: Melanie Lenz, Verena Lehbauer, Joseph Lorenz, Michael Thomas, Vivian Bartsch
We’re waiting for a full retrospective on the director – we’ve only seen a small sampling of his work with Dog Days and Import/Export but we get a true sense of Ulrich Seidl’s works as a docu filmmaker. Our Nicholas Bell was thoroughly impressed (review) by Paradise: Faith, while I found Paradise: Love (the first part of the trilogy) suffered from its lengthy run-time but it was certainly candid and unforgettable sampling of ugly tourism.
Gist: Hope, the third film in the Paradise Trilogy, tells the story of the 13-year-old Melanie. While her mother (Teresa) travels to Kenya, Melanie spends her holiday in the Austrian countryside at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers.
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Writer(s): Seidl & Veronika Franz
Producers: Seidl, Christine Ruppert, Philippe Bober
U.S. Distributor: Strand Releasing
Cast: Melanie Lenz, Verena Lehbauer, Joseph Lorenz, Michael Thomas, Vivian Bartsch
We’re waiting for a full retrospective on the director – we’ve only seen a small sampling of his work with Dog Days and Import/Export but we get a true sense of Ulrich Seidl’s works as a docu filmmaker. Our Nicholas Bell was thoroughly impressed (review) by Paradise: Faith, while I found Paradise: Love (the first part of the trilogy) suffered from its lengthy run-time but it was certainly candid and unforgettable sampling of ugly tourism.
Gist: Hope, the third film in the Paradise Trilogy, tells the story of the 13-year-old Melanie. While her mother (Teresa) travels to Kenya, Melanie spends her holiday in the Austrian countryside at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers.
- 1/15/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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