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Paradise

Paradise (2009)

  • 83% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 88% of users liked it
    (54 ratings)

Recently released convict Mi Kyung (Kim Ha Neul) connects with a kindly teacher (Ji Jin Hee) during a boat ride to Paradise Island, but experiences intense distress after attempting to prevent a naïve student from stumbling down a dangerous life path. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Unrated,
Directed By
Genres
Documentary, Drama
In Theaters
Sep 23, 2009 Wide
On DVD
Mar 25, 2008
Post Factory Films

Critic Reviews

  • Aaron Hillis, Village Voice

    Steadily maintaining momentum and a meditative mood without narration or editorialization is itself a feat, but more vitally, Paradise appreciates and shares the curious mysteries in the seemingly banal.

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    The peripatetic life of filmmaker Michael Almereyda is captured in glorious fragments forming a breathtaking whole in his new video feature, Paradise.

  • Jeremiah Kipp, Slant Magazine

    It wouldn't be a stretch to compare Paradise to Alphaville, what with its imagining of the modern as otherworldly, or to imagine it as a capsule made by an outer-space explorer who visits Earth and finds layers of mystery in the mundane.

  • Nora Lee Mandel, Film-Forward.com

    Long afterwards, Almereyda's images will haunt your perceptions of everyday life, let alone make you squirm at anyone else's vacation movies in comparison.

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