Photo of Melanie Lenz
Photo of Melanie Lenz

Melanie Lenz

“[In der Schule] bei Elternabenden und Weihnachtsaufführungen hab ich im Theater mitgespielt und immer die Hauptrolle gekriegt. Das hab ich gern gemacht: auswendig Texte lernen und auf der Bühne stehen.”

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    PARADISE: LOVE

    ULRICH SEIDL Austria, 2012

    The first in the Paradise thematic trilogy, Love starts the series of darkly comic tales about the human search for happiness, making bold connections between sex tourism and globalization through the lens of aging desire. The rounded lead character of contradictions is consistently fascinating.

    PARADISE: HOPE

    ULRICH SEIDL Austria, 2013

    After the shocks of Faith and Love, Ulrich Seidl made possibly the most surprising decision of all: tenderness. The final film in his Paradise trilogy—and by some accounts the best—finds the provocateur at peak warmth (but still transgressive) for a brightly twisted coming of age story.

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