directed by: Ulrich Seidl, year: 2012
actors: Margarete Tiesel

Paradise: Faith follows Teresa, a devout Catholic mother in Austria, as her rigid religious beliefs collide with the fragility and burdens of everyday life. The film traces her obsessive pursuit of moral clarity amid a flawed family, a health crisis, and intimate desires that threaten to unravel her certainties. Ulrich Seidl renders faith and guilt with austere realism, employing long takes and precise detail to explore how piety and desire clash within a stubborn, ordinary life.

Paradise, Drama, Psychological Drama, Religious Drama, Arthouse