Paradise: Faith

“You’ll wince, laugh and be shocked, sometimes all at once.”~Little White Lies

Aroview: The second installment of Ulrich Seidl's PARADISE trilogy follows Anna Maria, the sister of Teresa (in PARADISE: LOVE), a single woman in her 50s whose religious devotion is taken to absurdist extremes by the contentious director.

She devotes her summer vacation to doing missionary work, carrying a foot-high stature of the Virgin Mary. When her estranged husband, a wheelchair-bound Egyptian Muslim, returns home, her "faith" is tested as she is confronted with an uncomfortable reality.

NZ International Film Festival 2013