Mademoiselle Paradis (EN)
Mademoiselle Paradis
Vienna, 1777. The blind 18-year-old “Wunderkind” pianist Maria Theresia Paradis lost her eyesight overnight when she was three years old. After countless failed medical experiments, her parents take her to the estate of controversial “miracle doctor” Franz Anton Mesmer, where she joins a group of outlandish patients. She enjoys the liberal household in a Rococo world and tastes freedom for the first time, but begins to notice that as Mesmer’s treatment brings back her eyesight, she is losing her cherished musical virtuosity.
Title: Mademoiselle Paradis
Director: Barbara Albert
Country: Germany, Austria
Language: German
Running time: 97 min
Year: 2017
Cast: Maria Dragus, Devid Striesow, Lukas Miko, Katja Kolm
“Entirely modern, despite more spectacular, candy-colored ruffles than you can shake a bustle at.”
“An inquisitive, curious and gorgeously accoutered period piece about science, the senses and the position of women in Mozart-era Austria”
“an exquisitely crafted period drama”