Paradise: love
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| Original title | Paradise: love |
| Country of production | Austria , Germany , France |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Ulrich Seidl |
| script | Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz |
| production | Ulrich Seidl |
| camera |
Wolfgang Thaler , Ed Lachman |
| cut | Christof Schertenleib |
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Paradies: Liebe is a film by the Austrian director Ulrich Seidl from 2012. It tells the story of a 50-year-old Viennese who travels to Kenya as a sex tourist. The film is the first part of Seidl's Paradise trilogy . It premiered in competition at the 65th Cannes Film Festival .
action
The 50-year-old Teresa lives with her pubescent daughter in Vienna. She would like to spend her summer vacation in a vacation resort in Kenya . Before leaving, she gives her daughter to her sister Anna Maria. Arrived in the “vacation paradise”, she tries to get in touch with the Beach Boys who are waiting on the beach for European women to offer their services. At the end of a series of disappointments, she has to realize that on the beach in Kenya she can only buy sexual acts, not love and affection.
background
The Paradies project was originally intended to consist of only one feature film with three storylines. Only in the course of post-production did Seidl decide to split the stories into three films. The titles of the films are inspired by the drama Faith Love Hope by Ödön von Horváth .
The film opened in German cinemas on January 3, 2013.
reception
The lexicon of international films writes that the film is convincing "through the clever, thoroughly controversial connection between bitter, almost cynical sarcasm, comedy and abysmal sadness."
While Andreas Borcholte sees “a style exercise in disgust and sadness” on Spiegel Online , Beatrice Behn speaks of a “balancing act” that Seidl performs.
“Paradise: Love exhibits, but never makes fun of its characters or humiliates them. Rather, the film levels everyone involved in an intelligent and quite subtle way - the viewer and the director included. All of them are a little ugly, all of them are opportunists in one way or another. "
Silvia Hallensleben from epd Film criticized the fact that this “filmic study of brutality in a world of globalized exploitation” stumbled over “his overly lovable main character and his constructed nature”.
The performance of the leading actress Margarethe Tiesel was particularly emphasized by many critics . The Austrian “cannot be praised enough for the authentic portrayal of her emotionally stranded figure,” says Robert Cherkowski on filmstarts.de .
Awards
In 2013, Paradies: Liebe was awarded the Austrian Film Prize as the best film production and in the categories of director and actress (Margarethe Tiesel). The film received the Papierenen Gustl as best Austrian film in 2012 from the Austrian film journalists .
Web links
- Paradise: Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Paradise: Love at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Official website for the Paradise Trilogy
- Michael Kienzl: love and money. A cultural misunderstanding from the eyes of Ulrich Seidl on critic.de, May 18, 2012
- Criticism from Beatrice Behn on kino-zeit.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Ulrich Seidl (PDF; 3.1 MB), Paradise: Love Press Kit, accessed on December 15, 2012
- ↑ Paradise: love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed December 21, 2012 .
- ↑ Andreas Borcholte: Sand in the transmission on spiegel.de, May 18, 2012, accessed on December 21, 2012
- ↑ Beatrice Behn: In search of happiness. kino-zeit.de, accessed on December 21, 2012 .
- ↑ Silvia Hallensleben: Paradies: Liebe on epd-film.de, accessed on April 16, 2015
- ^ Robert Cherkowski: FILMSTARTS review on filmstarts.de, accessed on December 21, 2012