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Heading South
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0796019798174
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Netflix
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Netflix
MPN: D79817D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Netflix
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 06, 2007
Running Time: 103 minutes
Studio: Netflix
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Editorial Review:
Based on short stories by Haitian author Dany Laferrière, Heading South investigates sex tourism among white women who visit Haiti to rendezvous with young, Haitian boys during Baby Doc's dictatorship. Set in the late 1970's, the film features three women who are all in love with the same handsome native, Legba (Ménothy Cesar). Alternating between scenes of them collectively lounging around the resort and independently talking to the camera about their sex lives back home, Ellen (Charlotte Rampling), Brenda (Karen Young), and Sue (Louise Portal) typify women who revel in exoticism as the ultimate turn-on. Behind the fantasy, however, lies the reality of black Haitians, who comment on how they have traded literal slavery for the kind that comes attached to gifts and cash. Albert (Lys Ambroise), a waiter at the resort, Petite Anse, worries as he sees Legba sink deeper into trouble with local mob leaders as he carouses with women. French director Laurent Cantet has done an excellent job of presenting both sides of the equation, while exposing the violent corruption that has plagued Haitians for so long. Heading South's story of sexual cruelty is subtly treated to teach resort goers the ways in which tourist culture harms its environs. --Trinie Dalton
(Drama Foreign) Three middle-aged women on holiday converge at a Haitian resort to soak up the sun and sample the handsome young islanders' sexual talents in this well-crafted film. Disillusioned with and unsatisfied by the men at home, Wellesley professor Ellen and willowy divorcée Brenda find themselves competing for the virile Legba in this provocative paradise.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Jungle Fever
Set in Haiti during the reign of Baby Doc Duvalier, Laurent Cantet's (the unusual, quietly persuasive "Time Out")"Heading South" ("Vers le Sud") is an erotic fairy-tale in many ways: the "noble," pliant natives in the person of Legba (the excellent Menothy Cesar), rich bored white women looking for a summer vacation of good times, hot beaches, cool drinks and hot sex.
The story features three such women: the mercurial, experienced at the hows and whys of Haiti and its beach boys Ellen (Charlotte ... Read More
Rating:  - Exploitation turned into chick flick
A film about bourgoise aging Europeans using their wealth and power to have sex with semi-literate, uneducated poverty stricken third world locals? Surely a lengthy diatrabe against the sex tourism industry and a call to arms for the strengthing of the law against such evil predators? No, this film glosses over any issues of exploitation and abuse and tries in fact to be more of a romantic chick flick. Then surely this film must have caused howls of outrage upon release, pickets outside of cinemas etc? ... Read More
Rating: - Tourists in love and lust
A smart, sexy, ultimately somber drama about three middle-aged women of the 1970s who vacation in Haiti in order to sleep with the local youth. Newcomer Menothy Cesar was justly honored at the Venice film festival for his role as the hottest young native on the beach. Charlotte Rampling does fine work as a jealous but cynical sex tourist -- Rampling's pretty much in the league of those great English actresses we're always honoring. Also of note is Karen Young of "Law & Order," who takes center stage midway ... Read More
Rating:  - Great,great movie! Must-see
This movie is most remarkable in much of its sublety, and it's interested how many amateur reviewers in online forums are scandalized by the idea that middle-aged, postmenopausal women would have sexual desires, and that they would be willing to pay to have them fufilled. Such a squeamish, sophomoric fixation gets in the way of appreciating the movie for the brilliant acting and provocative psychological insights into the film's three women who travel to Haiti in the late 1970s to have a fling, and yet, they are ... Read More
Rating: - Privileged female tourists and young Haitian men -- unsettling and thought provoking
This 2005 award-winning Venice film festival entry is certainly intriguing. It's set in Haiti in the 1970s. There's political turmoil going on, but the three middle-aged female tourists don't see that. They're staying at a luxury hotel where they can freely have romantic encounters with young Haitian men.
There's a poignant opening scene at the airport, where a Haitian woman is begging a well-dressed Haitian gentleman to please take her 15-year old daughter because she knows that the girl will be ... Read More
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