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09/30/06
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.
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Reviews for Heading South
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
Top CriticWell 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
Top CriticA 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
Provocative subject matter and a rather magnificent performance by Charlotte Rampling aside, the occasional flickering hint of deeper meaning isn't enough to sustain interest.
08/24/06
The 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 CriticIt's important to regard with respect a film that evokes love, sex, death, fear and anger -- all in the first few moments.
08/10/06
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