Paradise (2009)

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A series of incidents, moments in time, collected over 10 years of travel. Drifting along more like a reverie than a travelogue, the film never indicates what city it's in, keeping narrative exposition to a bare minimum. Opening and closing with images of airports and escalators, the camera peering up at blinking neon ceiling installations, the normal world is viewed through what feels like the trappings of science fiction.

Unrated, 1 hr. 50 min.

Documentary, Drama

Directed By: Michael Almereyda

In Theaters: Sep 23, 2009 Wide

On DVD: Mar 25, 2008

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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.

September 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Village Voice

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Aaron Hillis

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

November 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety

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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.

September 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Jeremiah Kipp

Slant Magazine

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.

February 21, 2009 Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com

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