Paradise
  • Release Date: Sep 24, 2009
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  • Summary: Michael Almereyda travels with his low-budget camcorder captured people and their various reactions to spontaneous situations. Concentrating his camera on the elements not normally focused upon, Almereyda creates new experiences out of the mundane.

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  1. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: David Fear
    80
    If you can roll with Almereyda’s free-form vibe, you’ll find the docu-essay’s cumulative effect goes a long way toward proving his thesis
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    70
    Essentially a series of home movies, but home movies of a very high order.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Aaron Hillis
    70
    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.

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