This portrait of a middle-aged femme missionary is a bit more accessible than its predecessor, if any film that features masturbation with a crucifix could be called accessible. After exploring the ...

The opening shot of Ulrich Seidl’s “Paradise: Faith” is both a character sketch and a warning. A woman enters a spartan room, partially disrobes, and kneels before the crucifix on the wall. She then ...

In "PARADISE: Faith" Ulrich Seidl explores what it means to bear the cross. For Anna Maria, an X-ray technician, paradise lies with Jesus. She devotes her vacation to missionary work, so that Austria ...

In this brilliant social satire, a middle-aged woman works as a Catholic missionary while contending with the unexpected return of her estranged husband, a Muslim who uses a wheelchair.

Even at his most thematically reductive, Ulrich Seidl exhibits one of the richest pictorial sensibilities in contemporary movies. In this second film (2012) of his “Paradise” trilogy, his subject is a ...