Genre: Drama
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Cast: Maria Hofståtter Nabil Saleh
Writers: Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz
Rating: R 18
Run Time: 113 min
Synopsis
In Paradise: Faith Ulrich Seidl
explores what it means to carry the cross. For Anna Maria, a single
woman in her 50s, paradise lies with Jesus. She devotes her summer
vacation to doing missionary work, so that Austria may be brought
back to the path of virtue. On her daily pigrimage through Vienna,
she goes from door to door, carrying a foot-high stature of the
Virgin Mary. One day, when after years of absence, her husband, an
Egyptian Muslim confine to a wheelchair, comes home, her life goes
off the rails. Hymns and prayers are now joined by fighting.
Paradise: Faith recounts the stations of
the cross of a marriage and the longing for love. The film is the
second part of Ulrich Seidl's Paradise
Trilogy, the first part, is about Anna Maria's sister
Teresa, who paradise lies with more earthly love - with beach boys
in Kenya.