Paradies: Glaube (2012)
Paradise: Faith (2012)
DVDRip | MKV | 720 x 556 | x264 @ 1549 Kbps | 108 min | 1,55 Gb
Audio: German-Arabic AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English, Croatian, Russian, Spanish
Genre: Drama
DVDRip | MKV | 720 x 556 | x264 @ 1549 Kbps | 108 min | 1,55 Gb
Audio: German-Arabic AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English, Croatian, Russian, Spanish
Genre: Drama
For Annamaria, 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.
IMDB
…Distinctly and statically directed by Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl, this quietly paced fictional tale which is narrated mostly from the main character's point of view, draws an exceptional and moving portrayal of an utterly devout and headstrong Austrian woman who's faith is challenged when she is reunited with her husband named Nabil. While notable for it's naturalistic milieu depictions, distinct production design by production designers Andreas Donhauser and Renate Martin, cinematography by American cinematographer Edward Lachman and Austrian cinematographer Wolfgang Thaler, use of sound and use of colors, this character-driven and dialog-driven story and scrutinizing examination of religion which stands out amongst the director's three individual and connected films and which is as hilariously comical as it is seriously unsettling, depicts a heartrending and close to surreal study of character.
This conversational, situational and theatrical drama which is set in Austria and where the very unorthodox relationship that the sister of the sex tourist in Kenya has with the man of her prayers is disturbed by the arrival of her spouse, is impelled and reinforced by it's loose narrative structure, substantial character development, subtle continuity, exceedingly brilliant dialog, instrumental and vocal music and the poignant acting performances by Austrian actress Maria Hoffstätter and actor Nabil Saleh. A minimalistic, dramatic, cinematic and incisive narrative feature which gained, among other awards, the Special Jury Prize Ulrich Seidl at the 69th Venice Film Festival in 2012.IMDB Reviewer
Paradies: Glaube (2012)
