Paradise is Burning Mika Gustafson’s film review

Paradise is Burning, the film review by Mika Gustafson (Wednesday, August 21, 2024)
Paradise is Burningthe review of the film Of Mika Gustafson
At the beginning of Venice 81, one of the most beautiful fruits (awarded with the recognition for direction in the Orizzonti section) of the 2023 edition of the Venice Film Festival arrives in Italian theaters: Paradise is Burningthe Swedish director’s debut fiction film Mika Gustafson. A hymn to the anarchy of youth that photographs, in a summer of independence, the life of three sisters. Nymphs, fairies, witches who with their coven face the thrill of freedom, but also the uncertainty of an adolescence/childhood without a guide.
Paradise is Burningthe plot In a working-class neighborhood in Sweden, sisters Laura (16 years old), Mira (12 years old) and Steffi (7 years old) manage on their own, abandoned to themselves and their electronic devices by a mother who hasn’t returned home since the previous Christmas. Read the full story on cinefilos