Lute I take issue with an earlier review that referred to this character as a "witless African Boy" given to Teresa to fondle on her birthday. This whole scene turns on his performance. His lightness, elegance and grace as a dancer contrast to the crude slouching and humping of the women, including Teresa, who were fixated on getting him erect. In short, the stripper has the moral high ground here.

frtyener This is a good movie.Location and players were chosen appropriately for he subject.Paradise liebe is actually sex paradise for he middle age and fat women.It is a poor village in Kenya near to the beach and hotel.African black boys not only given a sex service to the ladies against money but also harassing them to sell some souvenirs.As for the birthday party scene in the movie;This is an uncompleted scene in my eyes.Teresa's friends make her a birthday surprise and bring her a black boy for a strip Show.All women play the boy's penis after he completely striped naked.Under this circumstances they all should be aroused sexually.Since young boy had enough energy to satisfy all four women,they should not let him go and continue until they are reaching climax.So this scene was not realistic.I would give 8 points but cut 1 for this uncompleted scene and give 7 of 10.

adventurer_ci I don't know if I can write 20 lines about this film, but I will try. I did not like this movie. It is not about seeing sex scenes or not very appealing naked fat women that I did not like. Women, as they were portrayed in this move do not exist. I mean by the time you turn 50 you learn to distinguish many things in life, love including. I found it to be a total absurd to portray these women as naive, who were going after young Kenyan men for the "real" love. I do not believe for a second that there are women of 50+ age that are so stupid. If there was a hidden message, I did not get it. Male prostitution? Nothing new here worthy a movie. Sex deprived fat women with low self esteem? Nothing new there either. The scene at the bar where 2 women were talking ( making fun of) a to a bartender was the most disgusting- I would not believe for a second that women can behave as low life punks. There is no story behind this movie.

Sander P Unfortunately, Paradies: Liebe doesn't really meet my criteria for a thought-provoking cinematic masterpiece and I have to say there is usually much better stuff in Cannes to watch than this. Then again, the subject may be interesting for age groups of 40+ where aging, feeling of belonging, dream of true everlasting love etc is definitely much more relevant. For me, the movie felt empty and a bit too slow. There were some interesting clues left to point finger on how the Western world is dealing with the 3rd world problem or how shallow most people are in foreign cultures but other than that, it was a rather painful trip through a world of grotesque reality.To sum up: go and see if you're a huge fan of social criticism or Ulrich Seidl, otherwise don't waste your time please. Although I have to admit, the movie did create some interest towards Seidl's other works, as the underlying idea was good, just the execution lacked and I hope the other works in the series work out better. Overall 5/10 from a demanding movie-goer.