Paradise: Love (2012)

Original title

Paradies: Liebe

Directed by

Ulrich Seidl

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany, France, Austria

Runtime

2h

Rated

16

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 226 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 50-year-old Austrian woman goes to Kenya seeking sex with local men. The film follows her encounters and the transactional, awkward relationships that form.

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What happens

Paradise: Love (German: Paradies: Liebe) is a 2012 drama film directed by Ulrich Seidl and co-written with Veronika Franz. It tells the story of a 50-year-old Austrian woman who travels to Kenya as a sex tourist. 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; succeeded by Faith and Hope. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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