Loading AI tools
2023 drama film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paradise Is Burning (Swedish: Paradiset brinner) is a 2023 drama film co-written and directed by Mika Gustafson, in her fictional feature debut.[2][3]
| Paradise Is Burning | |
|---|---|
| |
| Directed by | Mika Gustafson |
| Written by | Mika Gustafson, Alexander Öhrstrand |
| Starring |
|
| Cinematography | Sine Vadstrup Brooker |
| Edited by | Anders Skov |
| Music by | Giorgio Giampà |
Release date |
|
Running time | 109 min[1] |
| Country | Sweden |
| Language | Swedish |
Three sisters aged 7 to 15, live alone after their mother vanishes for whole swathes of time. When the social services demand a family meeting, oldest sister Laura plans to find a stand in for their mother.
The film premiered in the Orizzonti section at the 80th Venice International Film Festival,[4][5] in which Gustafson was awarded best director.[6]
In October 2023 the film received the Sutherland Award for Best First Feature at the 67th London Film Festival.[7]
Paradise Is Burning has an approval rating of 100% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 27 reviews, and an average rating of 7.1/10.[8] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 68 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generaly favorable reviews".[9]
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.
