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.

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Sean Hannity, left, and Rush Limbaugh are said to be dropped from the airwaves

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A man looks at his Apple iPad in front an Apple logo outside an Apple store in downtown Shanghai March 16, 2012. REUTERS/Aly Song

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36-year-old Chris Sevier blames the company for his wife leaving him

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Sex for tuition fees: Are universities just refusing to face up to the facts?

Institutions ‘bury heads in sand’ over students' sex work

Sarah Ridgeway (Truly Kidman), Ishia Bennison (Mrs Kidman) in A Mad World My Masters by Thomas Middleton.

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The RSC is set for an uproarious success akin to One Man, Two Guvnors

A shot of Dale Cregan released by Great Manchester Police

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30-year-old joins small group of prisoners whose crimes are deemed so appalling they will spend the rest of their lives behind bars

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