Friday, June 14, 2013

Movie of the Week: Paradise: Love


Glad my first feelings are right. When I was choosing what to see from Indie Lisboa 13 and after read a couple of plots I though Paradise Love by Ulrich Seidl would be worth see. But, I couldn’t make it to the movies and only saw it yesterday night in my cosy sofa.

The story focuses on a group of Austrian middle-aged women “Sugar Mamas” seeking for love in Kenya, where love is itself a business, a money source to many young men who accept to get involved with the European tourists solely to get money. All the characters are fictional although at some part we might begin to mistake it with reality. It has freshness.

Paradise Love is a clever movie, with some Freud quotes, so you better be prepared for the psychological double-meaning in every small dialogs. The subjects are race, sex, overweight, aging, Africa versus Europe “This is Africa, just love”. Paradise Love left high expectations to see the other two parts of the trilogy Paradise. I might go back on Ulrich Seidl previous documentaries too.  7/10

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