Next Stop Paradise takes place in a home for the aged, but since its central character, Dagmar, lives in the past, it has a two-fold setting. Dagmar envisions herself as she was in her youth - as a farm girl; later, as a reluctant stripper in a traveling tent show; and, still later, as a wholeheartedly enthusiastic stripper. Now, she suffers the usual indignity of increasing regimentation that accompanies creeping senility, but the spark of revolt in Dagmar has not been extinguished. One night, she slips off with a male inmate for a night of love at a seedy hotel....
“Bang Carlsen has used professional actors along with old folks home inmates to very good effect. The baroque viewpoint is taken more often than the sentimental. He has also used Alexander Gruszynski's cinematography in an unusual way, preferring to place audiences smack into completed picture frames rather than having them move along with the action.”--Variety
• Directed and Written by Jon Bang Carlsen. Photographed by Alexander Gruszynski. With Karen Lykkehus, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Suzett Kempf. (1980, 95 mins, color, English titles, Print from Filmmaker) SUBSTITUTION:

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• Directed by Peter Watkins.