Paradise: Love

This can't be fake. Punishing.

So unashamed and realistic I almost can't believe this film exists. Humans resorting to their most pathetic of tendencies: mutual exploitation where nothing much is gained and all self-worth is lost.

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Seidl is a master with his brutal austrian christal clear bauhaus mirror.His movies are as comfortable as beeing homeless on the north pole in winter.The paradies trilogy is perfect so it deserves 100 but it's emotionally so much detached, like an alien film professor coming from another galaxy making a movie about the unbearable human condition for his mates. If David Attenborough was an austrian sociology researcher he would make movies like this.

The powers of delusional thinking

Paradies: Liebe estreava há 10 anos no Festival de Cannes. O assisti ontem à noite e desde então fiquei ruminando se gostei ou não dele, seu tema é muito delicado e complexo, mas muito difícil de encarar, nos causa muito mal estar. É difícil porque ao mesmo tempo que vemos uma branquitude colonizadora fetichizando corpos negros, vemos também os percalços do etarismo, misoginia e gordofobia em ação. E é tudo muito difícil de ser assistido. BlurayRip no MakingOff.

Typical Seidl - making the ugly look beautiful. Was a bit taken aback that this actually isn't a documentary.

Reminds me of less substantial Michael Haneke. Everything draaaaags with no real payoff. If I wasn't squirming, I was bored. There were a handful of inspired scenes, but they were surrounded by a whole lot of tedium. Interesting in theory but a slog to sit through.

An enthralling and uncomfortable post-colonial portrait. My favorite of the Paradise Trilogy.

Brutally captures the divide between cultures and the isolation and neediness of individuals. An uncomfortable watch.

I'd say that this is definitely Seidl's most mature and compassionate work (one might even go as far as to say affectionate?), which of course is a relative term when we're talking about such a distinctly detached and "unflinching" filmmaker, although if anything i actually wish Seidl had gone even farther with the really formal, self-consciously stylized approach that he adopted intermittently throughout the film. The subject matter is undeniably similar to Heading South, but this is better.

Seidl is a master of creating uncomfortable scenes and dragging them out untill they become almost unbearable: quite an experience. Unfortunately some of his cinematic tricks are too easy and gimmicky; the overload of distant, observing, static longtakes remind me too much of Haneke and Ozon. Been there, done that.

This is incredibly well made. I can tell you what you see, is exactly what happens there. Amazing job by the director and the cast.

This made me very uncomfortable, in the best possible way. Seidl's symmetrical framing is wonderful and the harsh, sunburned look of the film only adds to its oppressive mood. The Austrian tourist's brief experience with exploitation only serves to remind one of the hardships Kenyans experience daily, and why they're forced to panhandle and prostitute themselves to white tourists to begin with.

23 Subat 2013 &

Seidl's reputation as a seedy and provocative filmmaker had me expecting some kind of unflinchingly grotesque sex-nightmare. Actually, while the subject matter is territory most of us would never go near, the approach is surprisingly sugar-coated and palatable. Most of the awkward scenes (apart from a couple of overlong ones) are won over by Tiesel's charisma, and decency is largely preserved. Although the message is limited, the film is well-crafted and even possesses a certain beauty at times.