Beach Boy
Emil Langballe
2013 - 27 min - Couleur - Royaume-Uni

Sex tourism is often associated with flabby, white men. But first Ulrich Seidl reversed the gender roles in his controversial feature film "Paradise: Love" about middle-aged European women on adventures in Kenya, and now a Danish documentary is following suit – but this time with both tact and human empathy! Juma is a "beach boy" who has turned it into a real profession to seduce European women who travel to Kenya to feel young and attractive again. Like so many other young Kenyans, he dreams of a better life in Europe. And maybe the dream is actually within reach. His romance with the British "sugar mama" Lynn might well develop into something more than just a naughty holiday fling. The young director Emil Langballe has managed to create a personal narrative, which in a cinematically strong style examines the explosive relationship between post-colonial exploitation and true (?) love, with a liberatingly immodest sensitivity for human dreams and needs.