Fresh
Much like his fellow Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke, Seidl knows how to keep his audience captivated while rattling us with a discomfiting precision.
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Overview
For Anna Maria, paradise lies with Jesus, and she devotes her time to door-to-door missionary work. One day after years of absence, her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home—and soon prayers are replaced by fighting.
Director and cast
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73%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Scenes are dramatic without a hint of melodrama, so when a flash of intensity does occur, it does so out of nowhere and registers even more powerfully.
Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com
Rotten
Now, here's the trilogy's second installment, in which the jolly Austrian makes it clear that women of a certain age do not have his permission to overdo it with religion, either.
Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post
Fresh
Like it or not, "Paradise: Faith" sticks in your head.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Fresh
A brutal, unflinching, anxiety-inducing, almost unbearably hard to watch film.
Tomas Hachard, NPR
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