Title: Paradise: Love (Paradies:liebe) Strand Releasing Director: Ulrich Seidl Screenwriter: Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz Cast: Margarethe Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Mau, Dunja Sowinetz, Helen Brugat, Gabriel Mwarua, Josphat Hamisi, Carlos Mkutano Screened at: Vimeo for critics Opens: August 5, 2013 on DVD When you come home from a trip to an exotic land, what do you tell your friends? “Beautiful out there. We had a wonderful time. Can’t wait to go back.” And what do you hear from your pals when they return from trips to exotic lands? Probably more of the same. Did you ever hear someone say, “The trip sucked from start to finish”? Maybe, but not likely. [ Read More ]
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- 7/4/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Man Of Steel | Paradise: Love | Much Ado About Nothing | Stuck In Love | Admission | Summer In February | Fukrey
Man Of Steel (12A)
(Zack Snyder, 2013, Us/Can/UK) Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon. 143 mins
How to retell a story everyone has heard so many times before? By shuffling up Superman's origins myth, adopting a deadly earnest tone and chucking tons of money at it, apparently. The result is a Christ parable with a Transformers-sized appetite for destruction. Cavill is appropriately strapping but the tension between Earth and Krypton gets buried beneath the rubble.
Paradise: Love (18)
(Ulrich Seidl, 2012, Aus/Ger/Fra) Margarete Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux. 121 mins
Wealthy white women's third-world sex tourism is hardly a nuanced subject (or a new one: see Laurent Cantet's Heading South) but Seidl brings it up to date and out in the open in this excruciating study of mutual exploitation. Tiesel plays a lonely,...
Man Of Steel (12A)
(Zack Snyder, 2013, Us/Can/UK) Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon. 143 mins
How to retell a story everyone has heard so many times before? By shuffling up Superman's origins myth, adopting a deadly earnest tone and chucking tons of money at it, apparently. The result is a Christ parable with a Transformers-sized appetite for destruction. Cavill is appropriately strapping but the tension between Earth and Krypton gets buried beneath the rubble.
Paradise: Love (18)
(Ulrich Seidl, 2012, Aus/Ger/Fra) Margarete Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux. 121 mins
Wealthy white women's third-world sex tourism is hardly a nuanced subject (or a new one: see Laurent Cantet's Heading South) but Seidl brings it up to date and out in the open in this excruciating study of mutual exploitation. Tiesel plays a lonely,...
- 6/15/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Ulrich Seidl manages to find fresh perspectives on sex tourism, but perhaps he is descending into mannerism
Ulrich Seidl is the controversial Austrian film-maker who combines the sensibilities of Lucian Freud and Diane Arbus with a certain special sulphurous something of his own. He is a prose-poet of the grotesque with whom I will always associate this awestruck comment by Werner Herzog on Seidl's movie Animal Love, about obsessive pet owners: "I have never looked so directly into hell." Seidl generally does give you a pretty direct view, and this film – the first of a trilogy – is no exception, but I am beginning to feel that his ideas and images are beginning to dwindle into mannerism.
In its subject matter, though not its treatment, Paradise: Love is similar to Laurent Cantet's 2005 movie Heading South: the well-off middle-aged white women who go on sex-tourist jaunts to developing countries to be with young men.
Ulrich Seidl is the controversial Austrian film-maker who combines the sensibilities of Lucian Freud and Diane Arbus with a certain special sulphurous something of his own. He is a prose-poet of the grotesque with whom I will always associate this awestruck comment by Werner Herzog on Seidl's movie Animal Love, about obsessive pet owners: "I have never looked so directly into hell." Seidl generally does give you a pretty direct view, and this film – the first of a trilogy – is no exception, but I am beginning to feel that his ideas and images are beginning to dwindle into mannerism.
In its subject matter, though not its treatment, Paradise: Love is similar to Laurent Cantet's 2005 movie Heading South: the well-off middle-aged white women who go on sex-tourist jaunts to developing countries to be with young men.
- 6/13/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★☆☆ The inaugural part of Austrian provocateur Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy (with all three films receiving staggered releases in the coming months), Paradise: Love (Paradies: Liebe, 2012) is a bitter first dose of squirm-inducing realism. Focusing on one rotund holiday-goer's adventures as a sex tourist on the Kenyan coast, Seidl certainly doesn't shy away from the controversial, exploring themes of racial exploitation and societal injustice within a beach community bloated by its own troubling contradictions. Thankfully, this first entry still somehow manages to remain as enthralling as it is excruciating, despite its languid pace.
Known on the glistening white beaches of Kenya's coastlines as 'sugar mamas', numerous predatory European women have made a habit of embarking on sex tourist vacations, seeking out the attentions of young African men who sell love (well, sex) in order to earn a living and provide for their dependants. Fifty-year-old Austrian single mother Teresa (an oddly...
Known on the glistening white beaches of Kenya's coastlines as 'sugar mamas', numerous predatory European women have made a habit of embarking on sex tourist vacations, seeking out the attentions of young African men who sell love (well, sex) in order to earn a living and provide for their dependants. Fifty-year-old Austrian single mother Teresa (an oddly...
- 6/13/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Sugar Mama sex tourism depicted in Ulrich Seidl’s ‘remarkable’ Paradise: Love (photo: Margarete Tiesel, Peter Kazungu in Paradise: Love) Sugar Mama sex tourism is the subject of Paradise: Love / Paradies: Liebe. Aside from the fact that this is a real thing, which is fascinating, director Ulrich Seidl’s remarkable film about the subject is deeply affecting in a number of ways. Paradise: Love is at once sad and ebullient, disturbing and invigorating, beautiful and grotesque. It is a daring investigation on the part of the filmmakers — especially its players, among them several novice Kenyan actors and several veteran Austrian actresses, all of whom, quite literally, bare themselves for all to see, know, and judge. It’s brilliantly done. Sugar Mama sex tourism involves middle-aged European women traveling to Kenya, ostensibly for lovely beach-resort-style vacations in paradise. True, Kenya offers resorts, it looks lovely, and perhaps it’s even a...
- 5/4/2013
- by Tim Cogshell
- Alt Film Guide
Paradies: Liebe (Paradise: Love)
Directed by Ulrich Seidl
Written by Ulrich Seidl and Veronika Franz
2012, Austria, Germany, France
Anyone who has had an email account for long enough will attest to the tsunami of lude messages that clog the spam folder until they overflow into the inbox. They advertise magical ways to elongate your cock, bulk up in two fortnights or earn your retirement by sitting at home on your computer pressing a button. Then there are the messages written in endearingly broken English by exotic Eastern Bloc women who claim to have been captivated by a profile that you do not have (unless you’ve opened so many that half have been forgotten) and would like to start a new relationship with a real man. As you peruse these for curiosity’s sake or for a cynical laugh, you wonder who exactly might respond to these in the hope of finding love and companionship.
Directed by Ulrich Seidl
Written by Ulrich Seidl and Veronika Franz
2012, Austria, Germany, France
Anyone who has had an email account for long enough will attest to the tsunami of lude messages that clog the spam folder until they overflow into the inbox. They advertise magical ways to elongate your cock, bulk up in two fortnights or earn your retirement by sitting at home on your computer pressing a button. Then there are the messages written in endearingly broken English by exotic Eastern Bloc women who claim to have been captivated by a profile that you do not have (unless you’ve opened so many that half have been forgotten) and would like to start a new relationship with a real man. As you peruse these for curiosity’s sake or for a cynical laugh, you wonder who exactly might respond to these in the hope of finding love and companionship.
- 8/13/2012
- by Tope
- SoundOnSight
In the first part of a trilogy, Ulrich Seidl explores the subject of sex tourism among rich, middle-aged white women. But does he tell us anything we didn't know already?
There is a lot of what can only be described as Lucian Freud nakedness in the new film from Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, the first of a projected trilogy.
As ever, his tendency is towards the confrontational grotesque, created with icy determination. He also presents his audience with some disturbingly surreal tableaux. But I felt that here his style is in danger of becoming a collection of mannerisms, even cliches.
The subject is one already approached by Laurent Cantet in his 2005 film Heading South: rich, middle-aged white women who take sex-tourist jaunts to developing-world countries to be with handsome, undemanding young men.
Margarethe Tiesel plays divorcee Teresa, who packs her truculent teen daughter off to weight-loss camp (the daughter's...
There is a lot of what can only be described as Lucian Freud nakedness in the new film from Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, the first of a projected trilogy.
As ever, his tendency is towards the confrontational grotesque, created with icy determination. He also presents his audience with some disturbingly surreal tableaux. But I felt that here his style is in danger of becoming a collection of mannerisms, even cliches.
The subject is one already approached by Laurent Cantet in his 2005 film Heading South: rich, middle-aged white women who take sex-tourist jaunts to developing-world countries to be with handsome, undemanding young men.
Margarethe Tiesel plays divorcee Teresa, who packs her truculent teen daughter off to weight-loss camp (the daughter's...
- 5/18/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
#76. Paradies Director: Ulrich SeidlWriter(s): Seidl and Veronika FranzProducers: Ulrich SeidlDistributor: Rights Available. The Gist: Paradise tells three stories - about three women, three holidays and three loves. The first woman travels to Kenya as a sex tourist. Out of love of Jesus the second woman tries to bring Catholicism back to the Austrian people. And the third, youngest woman loses her innocence in a weight loss camp.....(more) Cast: Maria Hofstätter, Margarete Tiesel, Inge Maux, Peter Kazungu, Carlos Mkutano and Gabriel Mwarua List Worthy Reasons...: The Dog Days (Hundstage) (2001) and Import/Export (2007) director has got not one, but two films (docu Im Keller is the other) set for a release in 2011, and in "Paradies" we have not one, but three parallel stories (Sugar Mama, Migrant Mother of God, Lolita) that will most likely carry Seidl's bluntly real, awkwardly yummy in your face type of social situations. Sign...
- 1/11/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
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