# Paradise: Love (2012)

> A wealthy Austrian mother’s Kenyan sex holiday becomes an unsparing reckoning with desire, privilege, and love reduced to commerce.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/69871

## Facts

- Runtime: 121 min
- Genres: Drama
- Director: Ulrich Seidl
- Cast: Margarethe Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux, Dunja Sowinetz, Helen Brugat, Carlos Mkutano, Gabriel Mwarua, Josphat Hamisi
- TMDB rating: 6.7/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1403214/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: slow
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: none
- Mood: uncomfortable, sun-bleached, austere, arthouse cinema night, social issue film discussion

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