Cannes entry 'Paradise: Love' looks at sex tourism
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Actors Margarethe Tiesl, left and Peter Kazungu pose during a photo call for Paradise: Love at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
Actors Margarethe Tiesl, left and Peter Kazungu pose during a photo call for Paradise: Love at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
From left actors, Inge Maux, Peter Kazungu, Margarethe Tiesl and director Ulrich Seidl pose during a photo call for Paradise: Love at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
From left actors, Inge Maux, Peter Kazungu, and Margarethe Tiesl pose during a photo call for Paradise: Love at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
From left actors, Inge Maux, Peter Kazungu, Margarethe Tiesl and director Ulrich Seidl pose during a photo call for Paradise: Love at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
Director Ulrich Seidl poses during a photo call for Paradise: Love at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
CANNES, France (AP) ? There's sun, sand and sex in Cannes Film Festival entry "Paradise: Love" ? and they add up to a grim and unsettling holiday movie.
Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's film depicts middle-aged European women at a Kenyan holiday resort seeking romance with young local men.
Margarethe Tiesel plays a 50-year-old Austrian whose search for love turns increasingly predatory. But the actress says she does not judge her character's behavior. She says the movie is about female loneliness and how "people who are exploited at home travel abroad and become exploiters in turn."
Seidl says the film is the first one in a "Paradise Trilogy" about modern tourism.
"Paradise: Love" had its premiere Friday in Cannes, where it is one of 22 films competing for the coveted Palme d'Or prize.
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