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Paradise Is Burning

2023 · 108 min

A tender, sunlit drift through unsupervised girlhood that tightens quietly into a low ache of dread and hope.

Directed by
Mika Gustafson
Genres
Drama
Starring
Bianca Delbravo, Dilvin Asaad, Safira Mossberg
Overview
Left to their own devices by their absent mother, Laura and her two sisters revel in the excitement of freedom, letting their days unfold without the constraints of adult supervision. However, when Laura receives a call that threatens to place them in foster care, she frantically searches for a substitute mother to avoid this fate.

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Directed by
Mika Gustafson
Genres
Drama
Starring
Bianca Delbravo, Dilvin Asaad, Safira Mossberg
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • coming-of-age
  • family
  • isolation
  • survival
  • parenthood
Places
  • suburbs
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

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Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
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Music
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Runtime
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Country
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Languages
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