Paradise: Hope

The final installment in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy, 'Paradise: Hope' tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya ('Paradise: Love') and her aunt does missionary work ('Paradise: Faith'), Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight adolescents. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor forty years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire, Melanie had imagined her paradise differently.

Paradise: Hope is a 2013 drama movie directed by Ulrich Seidl, starring Melanie Lenz, Michael Thomas, Joseph Lorenz. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.6/10 from 5,404 votes and runs 1h 32m.