The final installment in Ulrich Seidls Paradise trilogy, Paradise: Hope tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya (Paradise: Love) and her aunt does missionary work (Paradise: Faith), Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight adolescents. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor forty years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire, Melanie had imagined her paradise differently.
2013
HD
92min
France
German
Ulrich Seidl
Maria Hofstätter
Michael Thomas
Melanie Lenz
Joseph Lorenz
Verena Lehbauer
Vivian Bartsch
Johanna Schmid
doctor
overweight
diet
seduction
camp
nightclub
crush
desire
nutrition
