Paradise: Love
Drama
On the beaches of Kenya they're known as "Sugar Mamas" -- European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise. She goes from one Beach Boy to the next, from one disappointment to the next and finally she must recognize: On the beaches of Kenya love is a business.
VIBE
This film feels like a sun-drenched, yet emotionally barren, landscape. It's a stark, unflinching look at transactional relationships set against the backdrop of paradise, where desire and desperation collide with a quiet, lingering sadness.
melancholicsensualstarkunflinchingslow-burnnaturalisticarthouseobservationalexploitationlonelinesscolonialismdesire
beachcrocodileracial segregationkenyamale prostitutionclass differencesolder woman younger man relationship
