Although the way the story is told makes it slow and repetitive, the interesting thing about Paradise: Love is that it shows a different and most sincere perspective on loneliness and the need to feel loved. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 13, 2023

What Seidl achieves here is truly commendable. But dang, it's one of the saddest movies I've ever seen.

| Feb 24, 2021

Capturing complex themes such as desire to find love, body image, human objectification, and racial exploitation, Paradise: Love is a powerful watch.

| Jun 22, 2019

Somehow manages to remain as enthralling as it is excruciating, despite its languid pace.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2019

Here, each shot tells a story, silent cinema style, and Seidl's cinema resembles the railroad-like cinema construction of the silents. Yet he is not just presentational; this presentation confronts...

| Nov 16, 2017

A challenging and frequently uncomfortable watch that messes with your sympathies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2017

The film is attuned to the moral complexity of the situation, and also surprisingly tender.

| Aug 30, 2017

Even as he critiques the social dynamic, Seidl is never less than humane, spending serious time loitering with marginalized characters no other filmmaker deems worthy of time.

| Apr 12, 2016

A film that, once watched, is not readily un-watched, in both good and dismaying ways alike.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 10, 2014

Watching Paradise: Love is a visceral, Schadenfreude-tinged experience that produces belly laughs and queasiness alike-sometimes in tandem.

| Nov 4, 2013

A poignant film about the desperation of tubby, middle-aged Austrian women who take a sex tour to Kenya.

| Original Score: B | Jul 3, 2013

This cleverly made film is often painful to watch since we understand from the start where it's heading, so we watch helplessly as the lead character is warped by her yearning for love.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2013

The problem is not with the hopelessness of Seidl's vision, it is with the predictability of the tonal arc.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 2013

Some will feel too uncomfortable watching this but there's an ironic humour there too ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 2013

The double-edged irony of the title is your first hint: this is a clever pitch-black satire that often feels like a cruel joke.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 14, 2013

Roll on Paradise: Faith and Paradise: Hope!

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2013

Moralists and the missionarily inclined will go "Tsk, tsk, how degrading." That seems to be Seidl's attitude, though he sidles up to it archly and pruriently.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 13, 2013

Though it covers similar thematic ground to Laurent Cantet's Haiti-set Heading South, Seidl's gruelling film proves his knack for leaving viewers emotionally discomfited.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 11, 2013

Sugar Mama sex tourism is the subject of Paradise Love, and director Ulrich Seidl's remarkable film about the subject is deeply affecting in a number of ways.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2013