Completing a trilogy begun with Love and continued in Faith, this is the gentlest and most amenable of Ulrich Seidl's dramas of female sexuality. Thirteen-year-old Melanie (Melanie Lenz) is spending the summer at an Austrian diet camp where "discipline" is the watchword for the tubby teen inmates.
Prostitution
Like this page on Facebook for updates
On Google+
On Twitter
Top writers
Places
Politics
The Independent
i Newspaper
Shock ‘n’ roll… radio DJs Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity dropped after ad boycott
Monday 29 July 2013
America’s two biggest shock jocks just got a shock of their own. In a major blow to their broadcasting dominance, the second-largest radio station owner in the US is said to be dropping both Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity from its airwaves.
The lab fighting cybercrime: Russia's weapon in the war against hi-tech gangs
Saturday 27 July 2013
Russia is the main breeding ground for hi-tech crime gangs but its security experts are linking with Interpol to combat the threat. Oscar Williams-Grut reports from Moscow
Former IMF boss Strauss-Kahn set to face charges for 'aggravated pimping'
Friday 26 July 2013
French court decides the 64-year-old must stand trial despite prosecutors saying there is not enough evidence
Porn is about fantasy sex - and the truth is that some women have rape fantasies. But this is very different from the real thing
Tuesday 23 July 2013
It does not mean we would enjoy being raped, or that we deserve to be raped. Let's not teach teenagers that Planet Porn is inextricable from the Real World
Don't ban 'rape porn' - introduce more porn with negotiation and boundary-setting
Tuesday 23 July 2013
Banning rape porn will not make it go away, but send it underground where we are less able to observe the safety of performers
Paperback review: Elijah's Mermaid, By Essie Fox
Saturday 20 July 2013
On a murky night in Victorian London, baby Pearl is found floating in the Thames.
Paperback review: Ignorance, By Michèle Roberts
Saturday 20 July 2013
Ignorance tells the story of two French girls whose friendship is interrupted by the Second World War.
Three found guilty of raping teenager
Friday 19 July 2013
Three men have been convicted of raping and sexually assaulting a vulnerable young girl. The men, who – along with two others – were suspected of running a child sex abuse ring in London, were found guilty on five separate counts.
Trio found guilty of pimping prostitutes for Silvio Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' parties
Friday 19 July 2013
Bankrupt impresario and former newsreader given seven-year jail term, with five years for dental hygienist-turned-councillor
Apple sued for 'enabling porn addiction'
Tuesday 16 July 2013
36-year-old Chris Sevier blames the company for his wife leaving him
Film review: The Act of Killing (15)
Thursday 27 June 2013
The Act of Killing is without question one of the most horrifying films I've ever seen. No actual blood is shed on screen, but murder, torture and barbaric wrongdoing are imprinted on almost every frame.
Sex for tuition fees: Are universities just refusing to face up to the facts?
Thursday 20 June 2013
Institutions ‘bury heads in sand’ over students' sex work
Theatre review: A Mad World, My Masters, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
Friday 14 June 2013
The RSC is set for an uproarious success akin to One Man, Two Guvnors
Dale Cregan: One-eyed gangster joins 'whole life' jail sentence list
Thursday 13 June 2013
30-year-old joins small group of prisoners whose crimes are deemed so appalling they will spend the rest of their lives behind bars
- 1 Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
How will you make today delicious?
Tell us how you plan to make today delicious and you could win a £50 M&S gift card.
Win a three-night weekend break for two in Stockholm
Hesperus Press are offering the chance to win a three-night weekend away for two to Stockholm.
Summer food reader survey
Take our grocery shopping survey for your chance to win a £100 M&S store gift card.
See Norway’s spectacular coastline
There is no finer way to discover and explore the dramatic Norwegian coastline than aboard an authentic Hurtigruten cruise.
Where's Wallonia?
War and peace: history revisited in the cities of Southern Belgium - a travel guide in association with the Belgian Tourist Office.
Win first-class inter-rail passes
Win first-class rail passes to explore the sights and sounds of Europe with redspottedhanky.com.
Celebrate the joy of reading with NOOK®
You can buy a NOOK Simple Touch Glowlight at £69, or the NOOK HD 8GB Tablet for just £99 - until 3 September.
Enter the latest Independent competitions
Win anything from gadgets to five-star holidays on our competitions and offers page.
Business videos from commercial thought leaders
Watch the best in the business world give their insights into the world of business.
Career Services
Day In a Page
Four nights from £669pp, seven nights from £999pp or 13 nights from £2,199pp Find out more




