Paradise: Faith
Seidl is back on home turf in Austria ... but no less willing to challenge auds with startling imagery, ambiguous morality and ruthless black humor.
Paradise: Faith
In "PARADISE: Faith" Ulrich Seidl explores what it means to bear the cross. For Anna Maria, 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 wheelchair, comes home. Hymns and prayers are now joined by fighting. "PARADISE: Faith" recounts the stations of the cross of a marriage and the longing for love.
Genre
Drama
Runtime
114
Language
German,
Arabic
Director
Ulrich Seidl
Cast
Maria Hofstätter,
Nabil Saleh,
Natalya Baranova
FEATURED REVIEW
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
Even at his most thematically reductive, Ulrich Seidl exhibits one of the richest pictorial sensibilities in contemporary movies. In this second film (2012) of his "Paradise" trilogy, his subject is a fanatical Catholic woman (Seidl regular Maria Hofstätter, throwing herself into the part) who ...
Played at
Pasadena
Playhouse 7
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