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  • 2017
  • Film Movement
  • 2 h 10 m
  • 2017
  • Film Movement
  • 2 h 10 m

Summary Paradise tells the story of three individuals and the fateful decisions they make, forced by a totality of conviction. Olga (Julia Vysotskaya) is a beautiful Russian aristocratic émigré and member of the French Resistance; Jules (Philippe Duquesne) is a French-Nazi collaborator who is assigned to investigate her case; and Helmut (Christi...

Directed By: Andrey Konchalovskiy

Written By: Elena Kiseleva, Andrey Konchalovskiy

  • 2017
  • Film Movement
  • 2 h 10 m
  • 2017
  • Film Movement
  • 2 h 10 m

Paradise

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
52
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary Paradise tells the story of three individuals and the fateful decisions they make, forced by a totality of conviction. Olga (Julia Vysotskaya) is a beautiful Russian aristocratic émigré and member of the French Resistance; Jules (Philippe Duquesne) is a French-Nazi collaborator who is assigned to investigate her case; and Helmut (Christi...

Directed By: Andrey Konchalovskiy

Written By: Elena Kiseleva, Andrey Konchalovskiy

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
52
29% Positive
2 Reviews
71% Mixed
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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29% Positive
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71% Mixed
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75
Oct 4, 2017
Andrei Konchalovsky's film is more than an exercise, as pitiless moments accumulate with enraged relentlessness.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 4, 2017
The film’s tone and outlook is changeable throughout — down to a striking, only semi-successful framing device of docu-style testimonies that hover deliberately between worlds.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 4, 2017
There's a lot that's wonderful about Andrei Konchalovsky's Holocaust drama Paradise and yet there's something fundamentally wrong with the film.
By John Bleasdale FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 5, 2017
Paradise is a strikingly shot Holocaust drama that ultimately seems confused about whose story it’s telling or to what end.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 4, 2017
Strong performances and outstanding cinematography aren't enough to rescue an unfocused and episodic screenplay, which will leave many stranded in a purgatorial cinematic-halfway house between bliss and despair.
By Neil Young FULL REVIEW
40
Oct 12, 2017
Paradise and its predictable waltz of suffering, choked consciousness and monstrosity adds little to the problematic subset of camp-themed World War II movies, which feel like nostalgia for hell.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
40
Oct 4, 2017
The Holocaust has undergone some awkward treatments on screen before, but one of the most ungainly recent examples must be Andrei Konchalovsky’s Paradise, a well-intentioned but very soft-edged mess of romance, metaphysics and historical theorising.
By Jonathan Romney FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Production Center of Andrei Konchalovsky, Drife Filmproduktion (I), Ministerstvo kultury Rossiyskoy Federatsii, Rossiya 1, Eurimages, Blagotvoritelnyy Fond Iskusstvo Nauka I Sport, Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, European Jewish Congress (EJC)
Release Date Oct 6, 2017
Duration 2 h 10 m
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Website http://www.konchalovsky.ru/works/films/paradise/
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Awards

Russian Guild of Film Critics
• 3 Wins & 8 Nominations
Golden Eagle Awards, Russia
• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations
Nika Awards
• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations

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