Okay, we'll admit that the ideal of being fawned over and adored by half-dressed men has some appeal, but this movie doesn't... sex in paradise shouldn't be this uninteresting.
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11/30/06
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
Heading South opens up a fascinating world of complexities, some of which are there on the screen although others open up only once the horizon line moves past the screen's edge.
11/30/06
"Heading South" is more of a middling film precisely because it is so obviously tackling an issue and making a statement. As a result, the characters and the story suffer.
10/19/06
Where does Legba go when he leaves? Neither the women nor the director seem to care.
10/19/06
A compact drama boiling over with political and sexual subtext, Heading South gives us yet another opportunity to soak up the wonder that is Charlotte Rampling.
10/13/06
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09/30/06
Exploring female desire in a way films rarely do, Heading South is a film of sometimes subtle, sometimes blunt metaphors for the interaction of rich and pauperized countries.
09/23/06
Well acted (Rampling is, as always, brilliant) and well-crafted -- and it's constantly interesting, but it's finally too unfocused to attain the power it seeks.
09/20/06
Cantet's chief asset here is the acting.
09/08/06
It's a measured, stately film, and that makes the women's behavior -- 'It's incredible how racist they can be,' says Young, ignorant of her own racism -- even more shocking.
09/07/06
The regal Rampling has never been finer, and Cesar makes his character surprisingly proud and sympathetic.
09/07/06
Director Laurent Cantet dabbles in the waters of change with great subtlety.
09/05/06
In the end, one gets the sense that Cantet and his cast and crew mainly wanted to get paid to make a movie on a beautiful Santo Domingo beach among beautiful people.
09/01/06
The film offers something unusual, a tragic spectacle of normal, recognizable and utterly sympathetic people condemning themselves.
09/01/06
A movie that manages to lay bare a litany of human delusions.
08/31/06
It misses by a mile the quality that characterizes Cantet's other films.
08/26/06
An unsettling drama by the director of two other remarkable films about class illusions, Human Resources and Time Out.
08/25/06
Laurent Cantet directs his adaptation of Dany Laferreiere's La Chair du Maitre as if it were a Danielle Steele novel.
08/25/06
In a humid story that doesn't dip too far into voyeurism, and gives us a deep sense of Haiti as a volcano where visitors picnic on the slope, [Young] is a flood of complicated feelings.
08/25/06
Laurent Cantet is less successfu ... with his obvious intention to use the women as a metaphor for the colonial meddling of the West in Third World nations, where exploitation is a rule of thumb.
08/25/06
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