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By Tim Cogshell (223) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 09 Jun 2013

Sugar Mama sex tourism is the subject of Paradise Love, and director Ulrich Seidl's remarkable film about the subject is deeply affecting in…

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By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 May 2013

The striking compositions mingle childlike curiosity with adult decadence -- and natural beauty with garish consumer culture -- to provocative,…

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By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 02 May 2013

The film is, perhaps, intended as a deadpan burlesque of race and class and beauty ideals...but it plays more as a boorish, overextended punch line…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 02 May 2013

Challenging, complex and frequently ugly, Paradise: Love is a ruthless exploration of how unlike our everyday selves we can behave when we’re…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 01 May 2013

Ulrich Seidl: sadomasochistic provocateur or compassionate observer of the human condition…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for Film.com (1,892) on 25 Apr 2013

I spent the bulk of Paradise Love mimicking Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.” It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such a disturbing film…

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By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for New York Post (6,650) on 25 Apr 2013

Seidl sternly rejects nuance. All the women are crude and insensitive, all the men are desperate and exploited…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 24 Apr 2013

A tour de force of meticulous cruelty, a comic melodrama that elicits laughter and empathy and then replaces those responses with squirming…

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By David Fear (910) for Time Out (7,510) on 22 Apr 2013

The importance of Tiesel’s performance here can’t be overstated, and even during what is easily the most excruciating birthday-party scene…

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By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Apr 2013

It might be the most lonesome film about a tropical vacation we've seen, and the greatest film ever made about the weird socioeconomics of tourism…

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By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Apr 2013

It often seems more intent on spelling out its awareness of the politics involved than in lingering on the aching human engaged in the libidinal…

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By Ingela A (185) on 30 Mar 2013

Ulrich Seidl is an utterly ruthless social commentator who puts a spotlight on our culture's most repulsive behavior…

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By Robbert V (3) on 06 Mar 2013

So much loneliness is impressive and oppressive…

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By Alfin N (428) on 13 Feb 2013

Of course this is not paradise. This is earth. There's only money, no love…

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By Michael H (3,299) on 10 Feb 2013

After a while the initial rewards of the movie are overwhelmed by the tedious failure of the story to advance…

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By Marc Mohan (821) for Oregonian (1,550) on 07 Feb 2013

Paradise: Love, the first in a thematic trilogy, is a sad story about the difficulty individuals face when trying to establish relationships…

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By Karolina J (15) on 29 Jan 2013

It is not possible to watch this movie indifferently…

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By Marc B (578) on 27 Nov 2012

Does the film tell us anything we didn't know already…

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By Andy W (983) on 04 Sep 2012

This was actually my least favorite of the films I saw at Telluride…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 10 Aug 2012

Thematically, this chronicle of sex trade tourism is similar to Laurent Cantet's Heading South, but stylistically it's different--rigorously…

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