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Paradise: Love (18)

Drama

On the beaches of Kenya they're known as "Sugar Mamas" -- European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Read more …

Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise. She goes from one Beach Boy to the next, from one disappointment to the next and finally she must recognize: On the beaches of Kenya love is a business.

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The critical consensus

Does this film tell us anything we didn't already know about prostitution and globalisation? Arguably, yes: maybe the role-reversal aspect defamiliarises it, makes you see it afresh, and Seidl has formidable technique and compositional sense.

***(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 13/06/2013

What the film so excruciatingly describes is how the transaction between seller and purchaser demeans both parties. It makes for a dispiriting couple of hours.

***(*)(*)Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 14/06/2013

The result is overlong but still offers a clear-eyed engagement with a Kenya where love is a transaction and the heart remains a lonely hunter.

***(*)(*)Allan Hunter, The List, 14/06/2013

Very similar to the Charlotte Rampling film Heading South, Paradise underlines the way in which sex tourism is just a fresh twist on the old tale of colonialist oppression.

***(*)(*)Daily Express, 14/06/2013

Love is eye-opening stuff from one of Europe's most daring directors. It's perhaps too repetitive to be the best of the three, but the trilogy overall is dazzling: cinematic paradise for connoisseurs of human purgatory.

****(*)Jonathan Romney, The Independent, 15/06/2013

As explicit as pornography, it's a serious drama that's neither erotic nor obscene.

Philip French, The Observer, 16/06/2013

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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