Paradise: Faith (Paradies: Glaube)

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What's impressive and surprising about "Paradise: Faith" is how it takes a sensational premise (a lonely woman with an erotic fixation with Jesus) and does not use it for cheap shock value or as a vicious attack on Catholicism. In fact, it's not really tawdry or sleazy at all- it, like it's desperate heroine, just is. I have not seen the first movie in the trilogy, the thematically linked "Paradis... read more

The second movie of the 'Paradise' trilogy which sets in the summer holiday. Like I said in my previous review all the three stories happen in the same timeline in different locations with different themes and people. This movie which unfolds the story of 'Faith' of a woman in her 50s. And her devotion and affection towards Christ. Be ready to to see drama on a serious subject within a few dark hu... read more

(MU) Second in time and second best 'Paradise'. Seidl tries to be as ascetical nad minimalis as his rigid character, but makes good documentary improviation when she goes 'evangelizing' negihbours...

Anna Maria, a single woman in her 50s, devotes her summer vacation to doing 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. When her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home after years of absence, her life is turned upside down.