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“Paradise: Love flits nimbly between humour and sadness, and treats potentially ponderous themes such as sex, race and the rancid legacy of colonialism with a welcome light touch.” - The Telegraph
Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian woman, is fed up with her lot. She's a single mother caring for a sullen teenager, and she's ready for a change. She heads off to Kenya for some R&R, and almost immediately encounters the country's trade in poor black men prepared to do anything for rich white women if the price is right.
Ulrich Seidl (Import Export, MIFF 08) launches a new trilogy - to be followed with Paradise: Faith and Paradise: Hope - focusing on three related women. In this confronting first instalment, he examines the gulf between love and exploitation. Blackly funny, tragic and sexually frank, it is ultimately a sympathetic observation on how people use each other.
D/P Ulrich Seidl S Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz WS Coproduction Office L German, English w/English subtitles TD DCP/2012