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Margarete Tiesel (Actor), Peter Kazungu (Actor), Ulrich Seidl (Director, Producer) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Margarete Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux, Dunja Sowinetz, Maria Hofstätter
  • Directors: Ulrich Seidl
  • Producers: Ulrich Seidl, Philippe Bober, Christine Ruppert
  • Format: PAL, Colour, Anamorphic, Widescreen, HiFi Sound
  • Language: German
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 3
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Soda Pictures Ltd.
  • DVD Release Date: 30 Sept. 2013
  • Run Time: 313 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00D48ZQ0Y
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 14,031 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Three films about three women from one family make up this trilogy from auteur director Ulrich Seidl (Import Export, Dog Days).

The first in the trio, Paradise: Love centres on a middle-aged woman, Teresa, who travels to Kenya on a sex-tourism journey. Her trip has one goal: carnal satisfaction.

Love's follow-up, Paradise: Faith, meanwhile, follows devout Catholic Anna Maria and her draconian spiritual journey, which is interrupted when her estranged husband arrives.

The final installment, Paradise: Hope, turns the lens on Teresa's overweight daughter Melanie, who is sent to a weigh-loss camp while her mother is in Kenya.

This three-disc collectors' set contains the whole award-winning trilogy. Three films, three women, three stories of the longing to find happiness today.

"A Tour de Force"--The New York Times
“World-class ambitious with echoes of Three Colours Trilogy, this is Seidl at his most powerful and humane”--Indie Wire
"I laughed uproariously throughout, and if there’s something the matter with you, you will, too"--John Waters
4 stars--Empire

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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat films
By Craig Nelson on 11 Oct. 2013
Format: DVD
These are wonderful films which have to be watched to appreciate (this is not as dumb a comment as it seems). There's something repellent about the subject matter of all three films. All I can say is, yes, there are some unpleasant scenes and concepts going on. One sees in different aspects the misery of the human condition as well as insights into desire, hypocrisy and power relationships.

It is very cleverly done that one's moral compass gets a bit confused at times as to who is in the right and wrong. Bad behaviours are shown but without you necessarily hating the characters doing the bad things. This is quite difficult to achieve. Hard to believe but there are also comic moments in all three films.

All three films are strong but the best for me was the at times surreal Paradies Glaube (Faith).

Austrian film tends to the darker, one might say, honest - often painfully so. Certainly watching 'Faith' one can hardly avoid being aware that this is the land that gave birth to Freud and the idea that orderly bourgeois society hides a lot of impulses that are repressed. Paradies Liebe (Love) is both incredibly honest and painful to watch. Similarly by the end one cannot hate the protagonist inspite of the things they have done in order to seek salvation/happiness (or put otherwise, Paradise in one form or another). Either way, compelling viewing.
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4.0 out of 5 starsImpressive
By DeclanCochran on 29 Dec. 2013
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I must confess to being a newcomer to the works of Seidl (I've owned Import/Export for some time but haven't watched it), but on the strength of this trilogy, I will be keeping a closer eye on him and his work. Here we have his ironically titled "Paradise" trilogy (ironic because these films are miserable, and the characters find neither closure nor paradise, although they do look for it), presented beautifully in a cardboard fold-out boxset with slipcase and booklet. For a director whose style is both formal and aesthetically pleasing, this set is very fitting. The m.o is three films about three women, all of whom are linked (a mother, her sister, and the mother's daughter in that order).

The films themselves are all very good, but some more so than others. The first in the trilogy, Paradise: Love, concerns a middle-aged, overweight woman named Teresa who goes on a holiday in Africa with carnal and romantic satisfaction primarily in mind. It's a grim little picture with a very depressing outlook. Teresa is a vile creation, self-centred, racist and thoughtless, quick to objectify the black men she surrounds herself with in the pursuit of "love" (or her blinkered approximation of it). It's undoubtedly a masterfully controlled film, and Margarete Tiesel is fearless in the things she does for the camera. Seidl is keen to hold the frame, and his shots have a quirky symmetry to them, perhaps to a fault (as do all the films in the trilogy). For all these good things, however, the film is a tad overlong, and suffers from repetition in the middle passage. It's my least favourite of the lot, but it's worth seeing for an austere examination of what happens when an amoral woman decides she wants to get her rocks off abroad.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe very polar opposite of a Hollywood summer block-buster...
By Oscar on 4 Sept. 2014
Format: DVD
Brilliant really! ... But, they are certainly NOT for everyone. Plus, I'd even go as far as to add, that even for those for whom these will be the type, being in the right mood to watch them might also figure in the ultimate enjoyment, or not, of these divisive films. Other than that, if all these factors are aligned, these unusual films can certainly be an intelligent, worthwhile viewing treat. (i.e. more 'mind stimulating' than 'cinematically entertaining'.) Lets just say, three nice slices of reality bites! - 'Paradise' ain't something that comes easy... (if ever !?)

I sat though these in all one sitting, which in retrospect was actually rather a little too taxing. So unless you're quite 'hardcore' (and are the type to enjoy the likes of, say, 'Todd Solondz on a bad-hair day') then I wouldn't recommend 'a marathon' of these. (Lest you go and slit your wrists or sink into a deep well of mope.) :) ... Bottom line, if ya don't like films that make you think and/or that insist on keeping to a leisurely pace, then I'd steer well clear of these. As these are anything but an 'easy watch', where you can just switch-off and enjoy the ride. (Quite the contrary, you'll have to be well switched-ON to get any enjoyment from any one of these three.) These are the furthest thing from a Hollywood joy ride.

Personally I'm hard pressed to choose a favourite. (And am even now quite glad I watch the trilogy in one sitting.) But, if forced to choose one, I'd probably go with :FAITH as the one that probably best 'tickled my fancy'. (But all 3 'tickled' in a different way.) ...
I've also heard that this particular part of the trilogy is apparently one of John Waters' favourite films. And on watching it, it made absolutely perfect sense to me why it would.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsVacation:Austrian style.
By technoguy VINE VOICE on 8 Aug. 2014
Format: DVD
Paradise (German: Paradies) is the collective name of three films directed by Ulrich Seidl: Paradise: Love (2012), Paradise: Faith (2012) and Paradise: Hope (2013). They focus on three women from one family; one of them travels to Kenya as a sex tourist, one has to spend time at a weight loss camp, and one tries to propagate Catholicism. Three women set out to fulfil their unfulfilled dreams and longings.Paradise is the promise of a state of permanent happiness.as well as a commonly abused concept in the tourism industry.These are 3 women from one family,two sisters and a daughter.The method is to shoot fiction films in a documentary setting,so that unexpected moments of reality can meld with the fiction.The film is shot in original locations.The cast consists of actors and non-actors,setting up a certain tension.All 3 films tell stories that are fictions but had,as a starting point, personal observations,experiences and encounters with others.They both draw on reality and reinvent it.Each film can work as a stand-alone piece or connect as part of a triptych.Seidl has revealed a preoccupation with sex and prostitution in his films and documentaries.These three women have low market value,so they look for love elsewhere.For him for whom corporality plays an important role,it’s in the unbeautified you find beauty.

Seidl’s aim is authenticity,yet you wonder how say he set up the 1st film,Paradise: Love,where sugar mamas,over 50s Austrian women,partaking of sex tourism, look for love and sex with the beach boys,who are all non-actors,give them ‘love’ in exchange for money,a form of global prostitution.Read more ›
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