Film Comment Selects: Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise Trilogy
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Paradise: Love starts its theatrical run at Film Society on April 26!
Join Film Comment magazine for a discussion with controversial Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl following a two-night screening of Paradise: Love (2012), Paradise: Faith (2012) and Paradise: Hope (2013). The overlapping narratives invite us to empathize with, rather than judge, three women from the same family who seek fulfillment—and risk abjection—in widely divergent forms.
In This Series
Paradise: Love (Trilogy)
Inexperienced middle-aged sex tourist Teresa (Margarethe Tiesel) travels to a luxurious Kenyan holiday resort looking for carnal satisfaction, but soon discovers that her adventure in exotic sexual gratification comes at a price.
Read more »Friday, April 26
7:00pm
Paradise: Faith (Trilogy)
The daily routine of devout Catholic Anna Maria (Seidl regular Maria Hofstätter) is interrupted by the return of her estranged, wheelchair-bound husband, whose background puts a whole new spin on her religious devotion and launches a deadpan, tit for tat grudge match.
Read more »Friday, April 26
9:20pm
Paradise: Hope (Trilogy)
Ulrich Seidl in person for a post-screening conversation about his Paradise trilogy!
In this unsentimental and unconventional coming of age narrative, Seidl concludes his trilogy by circling back to the realm of sexuality with the story of Teresa’s overweight 13-year-old daughter Melanie (Melanie Lenz), who has been shipped off to a weight-loss camp in the countryside while her mother vacations in Kenya.
Read more »Saturday, April 27
8:30pm
