In Paradise: Faith, Ulrich Seidle explores what it means to bear the cross.
Paradise: Faith boasts typically stunning cinematography from Ed Lachman and Wolfgang Thaler, and it has a secret weapon in Rene Rupnik, whose cameo offers an oasis of hilarity in an otherwise disturbing film.
Seidl’s trilogy of leaves the heat and moral torpor of Africa in Paradise: Love and heads for cooler but no less than bleak climes.
Seidl is harsh and unforgiving toward his strange heroine.
The Paradise trilogy does not have the extravagant power of a movie like Import/Export – but it is gaining in potency.
For believers, it'll be an essential tract. Such is its commitment even the sceptical can't help but be impressed through the retching.
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