Review of Paradise: Love (2012) by Ingela A — 30 Mar 2013

Ulrich Seidl is an utterly ruthless social commentator who puts a spotlight on our culture's most repulsive behavior.. "Paradise: Love" is a hail storm of prejudice and abuse - and afterwards you will feel a strong need for a shower.

In this first part of the Austrian director's Paradise trilogy, we follow the single teenage mother Teresa on holiday to Kenya - and we will follow a painful trip through abuse, prostitution and contemporary colonialism.

But the filmmakers are not primarily interested in talking just about Teresa, she may instead embody the collective delusion that makes exploitation possible even today.

But Ulrich Seidl delivers not only though provoking films.. He has an aesthetic eye as well, and delivers a stripped-down realism, accurate and simple.

I can't wait to see nr 2 in the trilogi : Paradies Faith.