Dark Paradise
God loves those who suffer. Didn’t Dostoyevsky say that?
Daring, crazy, stylish, reawakening psychothriller without any boundaries the extremes of wandering young adults. At a farewell dinner, Karmen shouts an eternal goodbye to father Martin and organises a kinky baptism ceremony to weirdly shy half-brother Viktor. Her status as Daddy’s Little Princess will soon be revoked. Karmen adopts a new lifestyle of bodybuilding, modelling, and masochistic sex. Drugged up and drunk, the cynical feminist rebel looks for true intimacy in sex sects, freaky rituals, and nasty workshops, while lonely manipulator Viktor heals the marks on his face and reappears in her tumultuous life with a brutal vengeance.
You will hardly recall any similarly merciless, uncomfortable, shocking, and black-humoured Estonian film that is so divisive you either love or hate it.
Triin Ruumet unmasks her hidden strengths not to please everyone after her debut, “The Days That Confused”, premiered in Karlovy Vary.
Edvinas Pukšta
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Award for Best Baltic Film, grant of 5000€ from Piletilevi