The film is rich, cultured and slightly tiresome.
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07/08/06
Heading South (2006)
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Reviews Counted:81
Fresh:56
Rotten:25
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: As touching as it is disturbing, Heading South is an unconventional exploration of desire and longing, with superb performances and direction.
Theatrical Release:07-07-2006
Synopsis: Laurent Cantet's feature film stars Charlotte Rampling and is set in 1970s Haiti. The film examines a time and place in which wealthy women from the east headed to the country in search of sexual... [More]
Reviews for Heading South
As a glimpse into a curious subculture this provokes interest, but in dramatic and political terms it’s a missed opportunity.
07/07/06
Top CriticHeading South is a beautifully shot, superbly acted, thought-provoking and ultimately moving film with superb performances from all concerned.
07/06/06
It’s a delight; an entertaining, moving, audacious and stimulating conversation about happiness, love, jealousy, fear, race, sex, class, and social and colonial oppression -- in short, the relationship between the personal and the political.
07/06/06
Top CriticHeading South is a well-crafted adaptation of three short stories about rich, white, middle-aged North American women travelling through 70s Haiti in search of no-strings sex with young black men.
07/04/06
Top CriticDisplays an almost Fassbinder-like sensitivity to emotional shifts in power
08/30/09
A trio of middle-aged white women from different backgrounds relish the tropical pleasures of '70s era Haiti, which includes local teenage gigolos, in writer/director Laurent Cantet's problematic filmic adaptation of three short stories by Dany Laferriere
04/23/09
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10/18/08
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08/07/08
What Heading South says through careful omission or brief allusion is often more interesting than what it says on the clunky surface.
06/09/08
Erotic drama that probes lust, a police state and exploitation in the idyllic sunny climes of Haiti.
04/18/08
It also boasts another rich performance by Charlotte Rampling who continues to grow more interesting as an actress.
03/26/08
Una película lúcida y algo desconcertante sobre los deseos y fantasías de un trío de mujeres en vacaciones, con el trasfondo de la dura realidad haitiana del régimen de Duvalier.
03/22/07
The film triumphs as a prism for intimate, personal truths.
03/01/07
This fascinating flick, using physical desire as a metaphor, examines political problems plaguing Haiti in the Seventies while simultaneously exploring pleasure purely from an older woman's point-of-view.
02/04/07
an intense experience
01/28/07
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01/06/07
While an important message is at the movie's core, Cantet just can't find a way to make us care.
01/04/07
Hot sex in the Haitian sun is the main thrust of Laurent Cantet's Heading South, but melancholy and loneliness are the film's key emotions.
12/14/06
... a shot of reality disguised as an umbrella drink, and is as uncomfortable an experience as having sand stuck in your swimming suit.
11/30/06
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