Paradise Trips
The road to paradise is sometimes very twisty. A Belgian tragicomedy about the last journey of a bus driver.
- Paradise Trips
- Belgium 2015
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- Czech
- 90 min.
- Accessible
Mario is a long-distance bus driver, always gloomy and grumpy, bored with his
life, his marriage and his job. But the bus is his castle and whatever Mario
says is what counts. Mario has driven his bus all his life to take pensioners to
the seaside in Croatia and now he is about to retire himself. For his last job,
he accepts a special commission. He's taking a bunch of loud youngsters to the
seaside campsite for a music festival. It doesn't take long for mutual
resentment to set in. But this last trip of the Paradise Trips bus will give
Mario a chance to remember what it is like to rejoice, to enjoy life, to let go
of his worries. It will also give him a second chance to find his way back to
the son he hasn't seen in years and has never been able to tell him that he
loves him.
This Belgian tragicomedy won three prizes at the Oostende festival.
Film Festival Oostende
2015 – Gene Bervoets (Best Actor)
Film Festival Oostende
2015 – Raf Reyntjens (Industry Award)
Film Festival Oostende
2015 – Manon Blom, Mariella Kallenberg (Best Costume Design)
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