Paradise: Hope
2013 · Movie · 92 min · ★ 6.2 · 83% critics
A 13-year-old spends summer at a strict diet camp in the Austrian countryside while her mother is away. Between workouts, nutrition lessons, and new friendships, she tests boundaries and develops a complicated crush on an older adult who works at the camp.
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Details
- Original title
- Paradies: Hoffnung
- Years
- 2013
- Release date
- 2013-02-22
- Language
- German
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 83/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.2/10 (124 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy quiet, provocative coming-of-age dramas that sit with discomfort and moral gray areas, in the vein of Sparta or 3 Days in Quiberon; Not for you if you want light romance or fast pacing.
Pros: coming-of-age honesty; awkward summer humor; unsettling emotional tension | Cons: uncomfortable age-gap romance; slow, observational pace; limited plot momentum
Themes
- overweight
- nightclub
- seduction
- diet
- crush
- camp
- doctor
- desire
- nutrition
Cast & crew
Melanie Lenz
as Melanie
Joseph Lorenz
as Arzt
- VL
Verena Lehbauer
as Verena
Michael Thomas
as Sports Coach
Vivian Bartsch
as Nutritionist
- JS
Johanna Schmid
as Hanni
Maria Hofstätter
as Anna Maria
Directed by Ulrich Seidl