
Anna Maria, a single woman in her 50s, devotes her summer vacation to doing missionary work, so that Austria may be brought back to the path of virtue. On her daily pilgrimage through Vienna, she goes from door to door, carrying a foot-high statue of the Virgin Mary. When her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home after years of absence, her life is turned upside down.... (Full plot summary below)
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Anna Maria, a single woman in her 50s, devotes her summer vacation to doing missionary work, so that Austria may be brought back to the path of virtue. On her daily pilgrimage through Vienna, she goes from door to door, carrying a foot-high statue of the Virgin Mary. When her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home after years of absence, her life is turned upside down.
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| Movie HabitMarty MapesSolid characters in a transgressive look at the virtue of Faith |
| Tiny Mix TapesDerek SmithFaith, the second film in the Paradise trilogy, may not be as effective as its predecessor, but its story of a recently converted fundamental Christian woman and her now-handicapped Muslim husband returning after a two-year absence is still quite good. |
| Little White LiesAdam WoodwardExcited to find out what note Seidl ends his trilogy on. |
| Chicago ReaderBen SachsEven at his most thematically reductive, Ulrich Seidl exhibits one of the richest pictorial sensibilities in contemporary movies. |
| Empire MagazineSimon CrookPart two of Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy is a stark, morally complex study of blind belief, lightened by black laughs and Seidl’s static, deadpan compositions. |
| Total FilmTom DawsonLaying bare his characters, Seidl uncovers the doubt beneath the armour of religious belief. |
| RogerEbert.comChristy LemireCrazy, violent and shocking events go down in Paradise: Faith — events that will startle the devout and non-believers alike — but Austrian director Ulrich Seidl depicts them all with same sort of monotone detachment he uses in the film's more mundane moments. |
| The PlaylistOliver LytteltonFor all its abrasiveness, the film is also capable of real tenderness. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA sober minded and poignant film about the dangers of religious zeal. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenUsing his signature dark humor, static frames and improvisation, director Seidl takes aim at religious fanaticism in Austria. |