Synopsis
For Anna Maria, paradise lies with Jesus, and she devotes her time to door-to-door missionary work. One day after years of absence, her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home—and soon prayers are replaced by fighting.
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Cast
- Maria HofstätterAnna Maria
- Nabil SalehNabil
- Natalya BaranovaNatalya
- Rene RupnikMr. Rupnik
- Daniel HoeslLegio Heart of Jesus
- Trude MasurMarried Couple
- Dieter MasurMarried Couple
- Michaela Hurdes-GalliWoman with Cat
- Gulcan JafarovaFamily
- Sevinc JafarovaFamily
Recommendations
- 83
The Playlist
For all its abrasiveness, the film is also capable of real tenderness. - 80
Total Film
Laying bare his characters, Seidl uncovers the doubt beneath the armour of religious belief. - 80
Variety
The constant juxtaposition of scenes showing the dark and light aspects of the characters endows the pic with a juicy moral complexity that will stimulate post-screening debates. - 80
Village Voice
Though we're never allowed a close-up, Hofstätter's performance comes off as an unselfconscious tour de force, painfully real and culturally lost. - 60
The Guardian
There are plenty of Seidl's signature grotesques, extended uncomfortable scenes and hardcore imagery owing something to Lucian Freud and Diane Arbus. But perhaps for the first time there is also a hint of ordinary human heartbreak. - 60
Empire
Part 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. - 60
The Telegraph
This is cinema as decathlon – a string of tribulations to sap your stamina and make your ligaments burn. - 60
Time Out
It’s hard to say if Faith works better as part of a whole instead of a triptych’s single panel until the trilogy is complete, but the unconverted may find this too much of a cross to bear.
