Paradise: Love

Program Running Time 120 min.

Films in Program

(Paradies: Liebe)
Directed By: Ulrich Seidl
(Austria, Germany, France, 2012, 120 mins, DCP)

The first installment in Ulrich Seidl’s (Import/Export) Paradise trilogy focuses on Teresa (the very game Margarethe Tiesl), a plump middle-aged Austrian vacationing on a “comfort safari” to Kenya, a land of zebra-costumed troubadours, wild monkeys, and “beach boys.” A dark culture-clash comedy where the exchange of sex for money raises questions about just who is "colonizing" whom…?