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
