Paradies: Liebe
Ulrich Seidl / AT, DE, FR, 2012 / 120 min.
Ulrich Seidl delves into sex tourism on the coast of Kenya, where Austrian Teresa is spending a holiday on Hotel Flamingo’s ‘comfort safari’. A hotly debated portrayal of consumer society: pitch black, but not without its own highly distinctive sense of humour.
On the beaches of Kenya they're known as Sugar Mamas: European women who seek out African beach boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise as a sex tourist in search of love. She goes from one beach boy to the next, from one disappointment to the next. On the beaches of Kenya love is a business.
Paradise: Love tells, not without humor, of sex tourism, older women and young men, the market value of sexuality, the power of skin color, and of the exploited, who have no choice but to exploit others.
Ulrich Seidl: "I love to film people up close; to show their bodies without makeup. For me it's precisely in the unbeautified that you find something like beauty."
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Director
Ulrich Seidl
Production year
2012
Country
AT, DE, FR
Original title
Paradies: Liebe
Length
120 min.
Language
German
Subtitles
NLD or ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
Ulrich Seidl
Eye Filmmuseum presents Ulrich Seidl – Über das Leben, die Liebe und den Tod, the first exhibition – and the first complete film overview – of the renowned Austrian filmmaker in the Netherlands. Featuring a wealth of early, little-known and newly commissioned (film) works, the exhibition confronts visitors with the lives of a number of seemingly ordinary individuals, people who try to, in their own ways, make something of life in a late-capitalist society in which meaning has been replaced by consumerism.
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