Austrian director Ulrich Seidl makes a habit of blurring boundaries: his documentaries include staged scenes, and his dramas feature nonprofessional actors who are sometimes playing versions of ...

With the last installment of his “Paradise” trilogy, rigid Austrian schoolmaster-cum-director Ulrich Seidl unbends, just a little. This is, by some distance, the best movie of the three, and it ...

The Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl has a discomfiting gift for making the viewer complicit in whatever’s happening onscreen. From his early documentaries to the horrifyingly deadpan suburban portrait ...

Strand Releasing has acquired all US rights to the Ulrich Seidl trilogy “Paradise” “Paradise: Love,” “Paradise: Faith: and “Paradise: Hope.” “Paradise: Love” made its world premiere in competition at ...

Strand Releasing has acquired all U.S. rights to the Ulrich Seidl trilogy “Paradise” — “Paradise: Love,” “Paradise Faith” and “Paradise: Hope” with plans for release starting in the first quarter.

The controversial Vienna-based auteur talks about why he wants to show the world as hell. By Clarence Tsui Having premiered individual installments of his Paradise trilogy at Cannes, Venice and then ...

The work of Ulrich Seidl can perhaps be summed up by his preferred camera perspective: head-on, often boxed in, warts and all. This Austrian filmmaker has made a 30-year career of confronting us with ...