Director: Greta Bellamacina. Simply put, Hurt By Paradise is a small film with a huge heart. A film that admittedly takes a while to really find its feet, Hurt By Paradise ultimately evolves into a really engaging and even charming drama. Film Review by Iana Murray | 20 Jun 2019. Reviews “Every time I tell anyone I’m a poet, they just…think I’m really pretentious” – Hurt by Paradise (Film Review) Posted on February 8, 2021 at 11:31 am by Sophie Cook 127 0 Hurt By Paradise is a family affair. It may open with a tip of the hat to Manhattan but with its paper thin characters, indecisive storytelling and impatient editing, it has more in common with Allen's recent dud, A Rainy Day in New York. Hurt By Paradise: Review. The cinematography by Fabio Paleari and Emily-Jane Robinson is of extremely high-quality. Hurt by Paradise (2019) review. It was made on a low budget with love, but you would never be able to tell. Complete with sobering emotional depth as well as good humour, the film plays out for the most part like a stream of consciousness, mirroring its main character's thought processes and love for poetry. Bellamacina and Brown are friends in real life, and Bellamacina’s husband and son are both in the film. This debut film by Greta Bellamacina tells the story of Celeste a single mother trying to forge a future for herself as a poet whilst raising her son in London. At the end of the day, mileage with Hurt by Paradise will vary depending on your tolerance for the central figure of a well spoken middle-class white girl espousing her poetry in voice overs. Over time their dreams become ever more elusive. The film shines when it places full trust in its leads’ effervescent chemistry, and the BT Tower’s recurrence never finds significance. By Thomas White. Complete with sobering emotional depth as well as good humour, the film plays out for the most part like a stream of consciousness, mirroring its main character’s thought processes and love for poetry. Film Hurt by Paradise review – pretty, pretentious young-mum drama Director Greta Bellamacina plays a single mother struggling for recognition as a poet in … Single mother Celeste Blackwood and her soulmate Stella Mansell are two friends living in London, each pursuing their respective artistic careers as a poet and actress. Hurt by Paradise does not walk the line between earnestness and self-awareness so much as it jumps wholeheartedly into both, often in the same moments. Bellamacina's film borrows heavily from Allen, but largely from the wrong end of his career. Film Review: Hurt By Paradise Hurt by Paradise is a film focusing on female friendship, poetry and self discovery. A film that admittedly takes a while to really find its feet, Hurt By Paradise ultimately evolves into a really engaging and even charming drama. Film title: Hurt by Paradise Director: Greta Bellamacina ... Hurt by Paradise is reminiscent of the actress’ breakout Frances Ha right down to the black and white palette (though colour occasionally floods into the frame).