Paradise: Love

★★★★★

Original title: Paradies: Liebe · Turkish title: Cennet: Umut

2012 · 2 h

Directed by Ulrich Seidl

Drama

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Cast

Margarethe Tiesel

Credits

Written by: Ulrich Seidl

Plot

A woman travels from Austria to Kenya as a sex tourist. It competed at Cannes. Known in German as Paradies: Liebe.

Sinekatalog’s take

Ulrich Seidl's drama follows an Austrian woman on a sex-tourism holiday in Kenya. Cold, uncomfortable and unsparing, it turns a gaze on exploitation from several sides, in a disturbing, deliberately bleak film.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.0 / 10 (10,987 votes)
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