Paradise: Love (Paradies: Liebe)

2012
Austria / Germany / France
2h
18

Directed by: Ulrich Seidl
Cast: Margarete Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux
Language: German/English/Swahili
UK release: 14 June 2013

Fiftysomething Austrian mother Teresa (Tiesel), feeling the need for love and affection, joins the white 'sugar mamas' on the beaches of Kenya, but discovers that even gentle charmer Munga (Kazungu) has a price in mind. Seidl's film is visually striking and underlines the oppressive nature of sex tourism, but doesn't really say anything new.

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Paradise: Love

14 Jun 2013

An unsettling romantic drama of moods and moments that doesn't quite gel into a compelling whole

The pursuit of happiness leads to inevitable disappointment in Paradise: Love, the first in a trilogy from Austrian director Ulrich Seidl that focuses on three women from the same family. In Love, plump, fifty-something mother Teresa (Margarete Tiesel…

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