Paradise: Love
A tour de force of meticulous cruelty, a comic melodrama that elicits laughter and empathy...then replaces those responses with squirming discomfort.
Paradise: Love
On the beaches of Kenya they're known as "Sugar Mamas" -- European women who seek out young African men selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise. She goes from one Beach Boy to the next, from one disappointment to the next and finally she must recognize: On the beaches of Kenya, love is a business.
Genre
Drama
Runtime
121
Language
German,
English,
Swahili
Cast
Inge Maux,
Dunja Sowinetz,
Helen Brugat,
Gabriel Mwarua,
Josphat Hamisi
FEATURED REVIEW
Jordan Hoffman, Film.com
The striking opening images of Ulrich Seidl’s “Paradise: Love” would, in a normal movie, be disturbing enough to resonate through the entire picture. Honestly, by the time this Austrian journey through Kenyan sex tourism ended and I cried out for vat of extra strength Lysol in which to scrub my mind ...
Played at
Monica Film Center 5.03.13 - 5.09.13
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