The denunciation material presented by this Cantet film makes me reflect when it elaborates a very contained and transparent panorama on misery, social inequality and sex tourism. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 20, 2020

Displays an almost Fassbinder-like sensitivity to emotional shifts in power

| Aug 30, 2009

A trio of middle-aged white women from different backgrounds relish the tropical pleasures of '70s era Haiti, which includes local teenage gigolos, in writer/director Laurent Cantet's problematic filmic adaptation of three short stories by Dany Laferriere

| Original Score: B- | Apr 23, 2009

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

What Heading South says through careful omission or brief allusion is often more interesting than what it says on the clunky surface.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 9, 2008

Erotic drama that probes lust, a police state and exploitation in the idyllic sunny climes of Haiti.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 18, 2008

It also boasts another rich performance by Charlotte Rampling who continues to grow more interesting as an actress.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2008

The pretext that sustains this provocative and intelligent French drama - that women can be sex tourists too - provides enough rope for anyone given to feminist and post-colonial analysis to tie themselves in knots.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2007

Una película lúcida y algo desconcertante sobre los deseos y fantasías de un trío de mujeres en vacaciones, con el trasfondo de la dura realidad haitiana del régimen de Duvalier.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2007

The film triumphs as a prism for intimate, personal truths.

| Mar 1, 2007

This fascinating flick, using physical desire as a metaphor, examines political problems plaguing Haiti in the Seventies while simultaneously exploring pleasure purely from an older woman's point-of-view.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 4, 2007

an intense experience

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 28, 2007

While an important message is at the movie's core, Cantet just can't find a way to make us care.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 4, 2007

Hot sex in the Haitian sun is the main thrust of Laurent Cantet's Heading South, but melancholy and loneliness are the film's key emotions.

| Dec 14, 2006

... a shot of reality disguised as an umbrella drink, and is as uncomfortable an experience as having sand stuck in your swimming suit.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 30, 2006

Okay, we'll admit that the ideal of being fawned over and adored by half-dressed men has some appeal, but this movie doesn't... sex in paradise shouldn't be this uninteresting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 30, 2006

Heading South opens up a fascinating world of complexities, some of which are there on the screen although others open up only once the horizon line moves past the screen's edge.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 30, 2006

"Heading South" is more of a middling film precisely because it is so obviously tackling an issue and making a statement. As a result, the characters and the story suffer.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 19, 2006

Where does Legba go when he leaves? Neither the women nor the director seem to care.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 19, 2006

A compact drama boiling over with political and sexual subtext, Heading South gives us yet another opportunity to soak up the wonder that is Charlotte Rampling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 13, 2006