Paradise: Love 2012 123movies

Watch: Paradies: Liebe 2012 123movies, Full Movie Online – On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as “Sugar Mamas” — European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a fifty-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..
Plot: On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as “Sugar Mamas” — European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. 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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Ratings:

	7.0/10 Votes: 9,240
	78% | RottenTomatoes
	65/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 142 Popularity: 7.035 | TMDB

Reviews:

Bleak, grim and difficult to watch at times, but very effective at relaying its message
To begin with, this movie would certainly be rated NC-17, and it is impossible for it to get a wide commercial release with the subject matter and nudity. The acting and scenery is terrific, and has an almost documentary-like feel to it. The realism of the characters makes some parts even more cringe-worthy and difficult to watch. The movie also tackled a lot of different aspects in western society, such as the pressures placed on women about physical appearances. The main actress in the movie is really convincing in her role and really puts herself out there for the viewers. Its interesting how she starts off trying to be like her friends, but then seeks out love in her naivete. Even during the birthday party and with the bartender, she shows how she is not like her other boy-toy seeking friends.

Like a bastardised version of Shirley Valentine, Ulrich Seidl’s movie is too painful to endure.
Two days after watching Michael Haneke’s staggering Amour, I checked in with Austria’s other tyrannous filmmaker Ulrich Seidl and his latest movie Paradise: Love (or, Paradies Liebe, in Austrian-German). Nominated for the Palme D’or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival (where it actually lost out to Amour), it’s the first part of a trilogy looking at the despicable sides of human nature (the following two parts will be screened at festivals in 2013).

Just like his other previous works in documentary (Jesus, You Know) and fiction (Dog Days), Love is an infuriating film; whereby we have no idea where the story is going, and seemingly Seidl doesn’t have a clue either. Shot in his trademark static mid shots, with copious amounts of skin on show, it’s paradoxically beautiful and grotesque. Like a Lucian Freud painting with just as much of his grandfather’s’ psychoanalytical subtext, to boot.

Margarete Tiesel plays Teresa, a middle aged single parent living in drab suburban Vienna. The first scene sees her smiling from a distance as she watches a class of disabled children fumble-play on a bumper car track. It’s a harrowing, typically nasty opening, and really sets the film off in mean spirited territory, with Seidl doing his token unflinching exploitation gimmick.

From here, Teresa decides to leave her daughter behind at fat camp and flee to Kenya for a paradisiac holiday. Meeting up with her Austrian expat friend (Inge Maux), the pair talk in typically colonialist terms about African culture and black men’s genitalia. Later, on her own, she’s constantly harangued by the pushy salesmen on the beachfront, trying to sell her homemade necklaces and pearls at tourist prices. Although she’s reluctant to purchase their crap, she willingly buys into the perilous sex tourism trade, first as a customer, and later as one of it’s scammed victims. Bleak in tone, yet idyllically colourful in palette, the proceeding 90 minutes follows a series of degradations Teresa must go through in her troubled pursuit for paradise.

Similarly to his other work, flesh and body politics play a central role to the narrative, character dynamics and control of the movie. Wandering around in flip flops and skimpy bathing suits, Teresa’s slightly rotund exterior is used to exaggerate the character’s wealth, decadence and presumed dominance over the comparatively slight, underfed and suffering Kenyans. It’s a sentiment made painfully clear in one scene where Teresa partakes in an orgy of sorts where three other overweight German/Austrian women force a lean black Kenyan man to perform for their pleasure, and much to his embarrassment.

Whilst this may be the most palatable of Seidl’s fiction films, it’s certainly not an easy watch. At an excessive two hours, he wallows for too long in the audiences’ discomfort without ever given us a worthwhile pay-off. Whilst the landscape is filmed beautifully by regular cinematographer Wolfgang Thaler, this bastardised version of Shirley Valentine is a pretty loveless film experience.

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Other Information:

Original Language de
Runtime 2 hr (120 min)
Budget 3600000
Revenue 24267
Status Released
Rated Unrated
Genre Drama
Director Ulrich Seidl
Writer Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz
Actors Margarete Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux
Country Austria, Germany, France
Awards 4 wins & 7 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory LISTO Videofilm, Vienna, Austria, Synchro Film, Austria (Synchro Film)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Super 16
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 16 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm, D-Cinema