PARADISE: FAITH World Cinema

In the second installment of the controversial PARADISE trilogy we meet Anna Maria, a fanatically devout Christian and the sister of Teresa, the protagonist in the first film. Anna Maria takes time off from work to travel the countryside, attempting to spread religion everywhere she goes. Her rapturous love of Christ not only make her intolerable to the world at large, its explicit intensity threatens to tear apart her home life and her sanity. Seidl’s vision is damning and critical in this portrait of devotion, going farther than most filmmakers dare to go. This is his most ambitious shocker to date within the PARADISE trilogy. Direct and unflinching, it is a damning portrait of the human quest for paradise.