#76. Paradies
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Writer(s): Seidl and Veronika Franz
Producers: Ulrich Seidl
Distributor: Rights Available.
The Gist: Paradise tells three stories – about three women, three holidays and three loves. The first woman travels to Kenya as a sex tourist. Out of love of Jesus the second woman tries to bring Catholicism back to the Austrian people. And the third, youngest woman loses her innocence in a weight loss camp.….(more)
Cast: Maria Hofstätter, Margarete Tiesel, Inge Maux, Peter Kazungu, Carlos Mkutano and Gabriel Mwarua
List Worthy Reasons…: The Dog Days (Hundstage) (2001) and Import/Export (2007) director has got not one, but two films (docu Im Keller is the other) set for a release in 2011, and in “Paradies” we have not one, but three parallel stories (Sugar Mama, Migrant Mother of God, Lolita) that will most likely carry Seidl’s bluntly real, awkwardly yummy in your face type of social situations. Sign me up for this Euro item.
Release Date/Status?: Cannes 2011.
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