Review of Paradise: Love (2012) by Kristina K — 05 Sep 2014

Wow....funny,......sad....moving....touching....sad, but good, man I have just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch......its got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie.....i think that Helen Brugat, Dunja Sowinetz, Inge Maux, Peter Kazungu, Margarethe Tiesel, play good roles/parts throughout this movie.....i think that the director of this art house/international/drama movie had done a good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie.....man this is such a funny movie 2 watch, but in some ways this is such a really really sad movie 2 watch, I think that this is such a really well directed movie 2 watch, its got a good cast throughout this movie.....

It tells the story of a 50-year-old white woman who travels to Kenya as a sex tourist. The project is an Austrian production with co-producers in Germany and France. It is the first installment in Seidl's Paradise trilogy, a project first conceived as one film with three parallel stories.

Paradise: Love competed at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. It subsequently screened within such festivals as Toronto International Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival and New Zealand International Film Festival.

Critical response.

Allan Hunter of Screen International wrote: "Love adheres to [Seidl's] methods of working without a traditional script and developing individual scenes from detailed planning and the interaction of professional and non-professional actors. In Love, that results in memorable, highly convincing naturalistic moments as Teresa discusses her desires and vulnerability with a giggly fellow sex tourist or bitterly confronts the reality of a country where love is a transaction rather than a genuine response of the heart. It also creates a rambling, overlong film that just doesn't grip sufficiently to overcome the predictability of the story."Leslie Felperin wrote in Variety: "Ulrich Seidl's Paradise: Love is hardly the first film to explore the world of wealthy women and the young studs who service them; it's not even the first to do it in a sex-tourism context, having been beaten to the punch by 2006's Heading South. But it sure as hell is the dirtiest. ... Repulsive and sublimely beautiful, arguably celebratory and damning of its characters, it's hideous and masterful all at once, Salo with sunburn." Also Screen International and The Hollywood Reporter compared the film to Heading South in their reviews.

YOU HAVE GOT TO WATCH THE END OF THE CREDITS THROUGHOUT THIS MOVIE AS SOMETHING HAPPENS AT THE END OF THE CREDITS THROUGHOUT THIS MOVIE.....man I found this such a really sad movie 2 watch, but at the same time this movie is just so funny, it is such a powerful drama movie 2 watch, it is such a really well written/acted/directed movie 2 watch.....its got a great cast throughout this movie, man this is such a sad movie 2 watch......it is such a sad movie 2 watch but it is such a good movie 2 watch.....

Paradise: Love premiered on 18 May 2012 in competition at the 65th Cannes Film Festival. The trilogy's other installments, Paradise: Faith and Paradise: Hope, are planned to appear at forthcoming film festivals.

Post-production.

Editing of the whole project took one year and a half. Seidl went through many rough cuts of which he thought several were good films, but realised that no matter what, it was going to end up five and a half hours long. He also thought the three different stories weakened each other, instead of making each other more interesting. The decision was then taken to split the project into three separate films, and release them as a trilogy.

Its got a good soundtrack throughout this movie....but man this is such a really funny/sad movie 2 watch its got a great cast throughout this movie. but it is such an enjoyable movie 2 watch with a good cast throughout this movie......