Paradise

The film starts with Solange, a professor in history and theatre arts at NYU. She brings her class to the park for her closing talk on 'fiction and the real'. Soon the class is folded into a fiction about life, love, time, politics, mathematics and more, all the while excavating the inner psyche of its characters.

As Solange brings her dream of 'Paradise' into being: a
deconstruction of the messianic, sugar-coated Matrix fantasy, characters become authors who create characters who become authors: a Hoffmannesque nesting of consciousnesses begins.

Solange dreams her family into the future, conjures her characters into the present, and leaves them haunted by an unremembered past. She renames her children Jules and Juliet, makes them lovers, siblings who like to pretend that they are pretending to be sister and brother, and who keep love and memory alive by impersonating each other. Her husband Roman, haunted by a chill presentiment of that first, malevolent thriller, finds himself receding into an infinity of other lives, as if there were no death only dissolving.

2009, HD, 107 minutes

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• philosophical
• abstract
• dream
• dreamy
• joseph chaikin
• julian beck
• experimental
• theatre
• dogma 95
• thriller
• love
• memory
• godard
• kustirica
• altman
• verite
• documentary
• money
• free-market p
• sex
• death
• soma
• spies
• wonka
• brave new world
• houellebecq
• drugs
• hypnotism
• antonionni
• weekend
• lars von trier
• .marc lafia

[rogalikcomcast]

We saw this movie with the great interest.

We were impressed with a beautiful cinematography. Evidently, this film is satiric although we are not sure that we understand a main idea of the movie.

Otherwise, we wish creator of this film a great success in his future work.

[boxtheoryNYC]

Wow. from what i've seen so far, this movie really reads as an homage to so many great film makers (Goddard in particular) but with a contemporary look at questions of reality and time. After reading the description i'm interested to see how the director works to deconstructs the other social systems and starts to play with the messianic archetypes and ideas of consciousness and self-authorship. I want to see more to get a better idea of this film! POST MORE!

[ohorton11]

The camera's eye-level position speaks to the characters' own self-involvment...they were all so caught up in their own thoughts, senses, etc. that they weren't really aware of what was going on around them. Only the little boy seemed to notice the madness of it all, hence his reaction. Very interesting--would love to see more.

[CLANIADO1]

collision.layers.reality.ficti­on.emotional catharsis.apathy.matter.energy­.nothingness.essence.existence­.mind contraction.mind expansion.ball of energy within another ball.or formless, chaos.order.all in question.all a matter of interpration.the artist in action.the audience in action.one into the other.one or the other.one and the other etc. archetypes in motion.art stimulating the senses..an invitation to experiencing fully and without the bullshit..hope to see the movie soon..

Claudio Laniado

[mustafahbrown]

my mind is rocked. Is there more? How do I find it? Beautiful camera, work and sprawling landscape. I'm not sure if I get it all though, give me more.

[hamhamamirim]

I like the part where they put on their costumes and the little boy is crying, it is a very honest scene.

[toshijit]

It was great! Very real, I can feel inside of the human. shocking, I couldn't look at anywhere else whole time. Like a magic. Mysterious, Marc Lafia World

[pedrorezende08]

marc the film is fantastic, its a beautifully twisted version of reality. post more!

[rosenfeld1979]

free from any conventions! what the hell are they all doing?

[irenarogo]

Stunning, where can i see more?