2013 · drama · music
Paradise: Faith
Directed by Ulrich Seidl1h 49m2013
For Anna Maria, paradise lies with Jesus, and she devotes her time to door-to-door missionary work. One day after years of absence, her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home—and soon prayers are replaced by fighting.
Our read: Paradise: Faith (2013) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, inventive drama · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, slow-burn, measured drama / music, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- slow-burn
- intense
- bleak
- cold
- intimate
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