Paradise Is Burning review – teens survive on wits in dreamy coming-of-age drama

For kicks and supplementary snacks, they break into nearby homes, along with a gaggle of other girls spanning the same age range, to play in the pool and raid the larders. It’s after getting caught by one homeowner and needing to hide out from his pursuit that Laura meets Hanna (Ida Engvoll), a grown woman with her own freight of unexplained trouble, who offers Laura food and shelter. Intrigued by Laura’s stories of home incursions, Hanna starts tagging along, plundering strangers’ cannabis stashes, listening to their records and reading diaries. Laura starts to hope she might be able to get Hanna to impersonate her mother when the social workers come for a pending home visit.