Boasts another formidable and fine-tuned performance from the great Charlotte Rampling.
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08/04/06
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
A 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
Departing from his male-driven films, Cantet zeroes in on three sexually frustrated women (ab)using Haitian boys, probing how the personal and the political interface and clash in issues of physical desire and social intimacy.
07/23/06
Cantet's fascinating, troubling drama has many meanings.
07/21/06
Top CriticWhile its main characters are admirably humanized, this is nevertheless a movie about economic exploitation. It's a very sexual work, but it is far more political at its core.
07/21/06
A fascinating French film about two cultures in collision and the sexual drives of middle-age women vacationing in Haiti.
07/21/06
The 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 CriticHeading South is an absorbing extension of Cantet’s abiding obsession with the seeding of political inequality in intimate relations.
07/20/06
The 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 CriticRamples along as a concise parody of sex-linked colonialism.
07/12/06
It fails.
07/08/06
The film is rich, cultured and slightly tiresome.
07/08/06
Director Laurent Cantet's fourth feature abandons the contentious French workplaces of Human Resources and Time Out for sunnier climes, but this Haitian idyll is an equally excoriating look at labor and exploitation.
07/07/06
Heading 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 CriticAs a glimpse into a curious subculture this provokes interest, but in dramatic and political terms it’s a missed opportunity.
07/07/06
Looking for love in all the wrong places cools in the warmth of the Haitian sun.
07/06/06
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