Saturday, 5 December 2015

No hope, only confusion

Paradise: Hope (2012)

 Directed by Ulrich Seidl this film stars Melanie Lenz, Verena Lehbauer, Joseph Lorenz and Viviane Bartsch. While her mother is on holiday in Kenya a 13 year old girl spends the summer at a fat camp where she forms a crush on the middle aged doctor.

 This film is fairly ambiguous at times which leaves you wondering just what has happened in some scenes. There are plenty of scenes that make you uneasy but I am not sure the story ever really makes clear what it is talking about. I thought the acting and direction was good but found the story a little hard to pick apart for deeper meaning.

 3/5

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