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Paradise: Hope (2013)
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Original name: Paradies: Hoffnung
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Hope, the third film in the PARADISE TRILOGY, tells the story of the 13-year-old Melanie. While her mother (Teresa) travels to Kenya, Melanie spends her holiday in the Austrian countryside at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers. Under the supervision of a tattooed trainer and a creepy doctor, the teenagers attempt to do sports during the day and secretly get drunk in the evening. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the doctor who is 40 years her senior.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, cynical, art house, offbeat, crying, transgressive
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
impossible love, overweight, 13 year old, physical appearance, teenage crush, older man younger woman relationship, diet, youth, camp, sex talk, coming of age, teenage life, love and romance, age difference, nutrition, crush, teenage girl, discipline, desire, sexuality, seduction, unrequited love, summer camp, drunkenness, sexual attraction ...
Time:
90s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
austria, kenya
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Austria
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Duration: 120 min.
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Story:
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Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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437
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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329
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Country: Germany
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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31%
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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211
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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30%
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Story:
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Style:
serious, sincere, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Belgium
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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204
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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