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.
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09/23/06
Heading South (2006)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:15
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: As touching as it is disturbing, Heading South is an unconventional exploration of desire and longing, with superb performances and direction.
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Reviews for Heading South
Top CriticThe regal Rampling has never been finer, and Cesar makes his character surprisingly proud and sympathetic.
09/07/06
Top CriticThe film offers something unusual, a tragic spectacle of normal, recognizable and utterly sympathetic people condemning themselves.
09/01/06
Top CriticThe movie avoids devolving into polemic by treating its characters as individuals.
08/18/06
Top CriticIn its way, the film is a piercing indictment, though it makes its point without much screaming, hectoring or preening. It's quietly terrific.
08/17/06
Top CriticAt 60, with three 2006 releases in the can, Rampling still seems an international treasure, a great camera subject and a truly daring actress.
08/17/06
Top CriticBoasts another formidable and fine-tuned performance from the great Charlotte Rampling.
08/04/06
Top CriticA nervy but muddleheaded work ... with sharply unpleasant things to say about the First World's moral strip-mining of the Third but an overly tactful way of saying them.
08/04/06
Top CriticCantet's fascinating, troubling drama has many meanings.
07/21/06
Top CriticThe women are meant to level the emotional playing field and add depth to what is, at heart, a story about the exploitation of poor nations by rich and powerful ones. But they wind up being too bitter and unstable to elicit much sympathy.
07/20/06
Top CriticThe film is too slow for my taste, but for perfectly formed characters and authentic human conflict, Heading South is beautifully written, carefully photographed and eventually devastating.
07/19/06
Top CriticWhat is surprising is the delicacy with which Rampling and Cantet -- himself better known as a chronicler of men -- create a character of such potent feminine hunger.
07/12/06
Top CriticHeading South is a seemingly straightforward and simple picture that's really defiantly complex, sexually, politically and emotionally.
07/07/06
Top CriticIn Laurent Cantet's fine new film Heading South, the amorous travelers aren't men but well-heeled, middle-aged women from North America, and their playground is lawless Haiti.
07/07/06
Top CriticA powerful cocktail of not just sex and love but race, poverty, colonialism and jealousy.
07/07/06
Top CriticA well-acted but misguided tale of displaced sexual longing on the beaches of Baby Doc Duvalier's 1970s Haiti.
07/07/06
Top CriticLaurent Cantet's devastating new film contemplates the darker social undercurrents beneath a seemingly benign example of sexual tourism. examination of middle-age desire.
07/06/06
Top CriticAn intelligent movie, not so much salacious as affecting but ultimately less analytical than overwrought...
07/05/06
Top CriticAlbert's bitterness deserved further development, but the real puzzle is why Cantet doesn't let Legba have a say.
02/03/06
Top CriticCantet never finds the keys to his characters in Heading South and fails to give them life beyond the politicized representations imposed on them by Laferrière.
02/03/06
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