October 31, 2009
I didnt particularly like the movie but as always Charlotte is fantastic.
Anotte Saint Ford, Charlotte Rampling, Jackenson Pierre Olmo Diaz
On the sun drenched island of Haiti in the '70s, foreigners idle away their vacations in the palm-fringed paradise of the beach hotels. Brenda, Ellen and Sue, three North American women, converge on t...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 6, 2007
Stats: 94 reviews
Flixster Reviews (94)
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October 24, 2009Summer confessions on the hard pillow. 2005 by Laurent Cantet , one of the leading new generation French film directors after New Wave.
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February 7, 2009A movie to think about what it has to say about people traveling to other countries.
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January 12, 2009The film takes place in Haiti in the late 70's and is about three older single women visiting a beach resort to take advantage of the sun, sea, sand, and young Haitian men. I loved this film. It feels very French in its tasteful restraint. Actual sex is never shown, yet it is ev...( read more)
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January 28, 2008Other than Charlotte Rampling and the Haitian kid, most of the people were pretty dull. Was interesting examination of Haiti. Oh, and for those of you concerned about the content - mainly because the cover doesn't look "safe", there's hardly anything other than some harsh dialog...( read more)
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January 23, 2008Older women, young boys & Haiti... yummy lol. Gorgeous scenes, minimal story. CRampling gets better with age.
Critic Reviews
September 7, 2006
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
September 1, 2006
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
The film offers something unusual, a tragic spectacle of normal, recognizable and utterly sympathetic people condemning themselves. full review
August 4, 2006
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Boasts another formidable and fine-tuned performance from the great Charlotte Rampling. full review
August 4, 2006
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
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. full review
July 21, 2006
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Cantet's fascinating, troubling drama has many meanings. full review
July 7, 2006
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Heading South is a seemingly straightforward and simple picture that's really defiantly complex, sexually, politically and emotionally. full review
July 7, 2006
Kyle Smith, New York Post
A powerful cocktail of not just sex and love but race, poverty, colonialism and jealousy. full review
June 12, 2006
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
Preoccupied with people's longing for unattainable mastery over forces beyond their control and the facades they assume as a means of compensating for their powerlessness. full review
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