The film stands alone as a tender portrait of adolescence at its most vulnerable and how we manage to survive it, even when surrounded by predators and wolves.
The longtime provocateur continues to poke fun at the Austrian bourgeoisie's obsession with order, but his attitude here is generally affectionate.
Seidl gestures towards understanding rather than confrontation - turning in a slighter, softer-grained film than its predecessors, but no worse for it.
Seidl likes his tragicomedy black. He likes it malicious and a little miserablist. You do not go to these films hoping to see - well - love, faith or hope. Let alone "paradise".
After Love and Faith, Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl takes a gentler approach to explore hope, although the film is equally unsettling.
Originally conceived as one single portmanteau film, the Paradise trilogy doesn't have enough meat on its bones to justify four hours of anyone's life.
The third film in Austrian writer-director Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy is an engaging, frequently darkly funny and disarmingly warm-hearted drama with a terrific central performance from Melanie Lenz.
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