Graphic film on female sex tourists cheered in Cannes

Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2012-05-19 16:03

Article here. Filled with rationalizations for why certain women are doing what the film shows. Would a film about male sex tourism get such acclaim especially when there is a huge income and class disparity between buyers and sellers? Never, nor should it. So why is this one? You know the answer already. Excerpt:

'A graphic, unflinching look at the delicate interplay of desire, money and power among European women sex tourists and African gigolos hit the screen yesterday in the Cannes contender "Paradise: Love".

Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, who scandalised cinema's top international showcase five years ago with another take on rich and poor and the sex trade, "Import/Export", this time turns his camera on women as the consumers.

"Paradise: Love" stars Margarethe Tiesel as Teresa, a 50-year-old Viennese single mother of an insolent teenage daughter who needs a break from it all, in a breakout performance cheered by audiences here.'

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Men who travel to other countries to take advantage of much younger females are condemned. Women who do the same, but to take advantage of much younger males are... commended?

This film also glorifies domestic violence against men. One scene is decribed: "When Teresa finds out the woman is actually his wife, she flies into a jealous rage and beats him in front of the other guests on the hotel's palm-lined beach."

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Submitted by xtrnl on Sun, 2012-05-20 08:49