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

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.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Sep 23, 2006

The film offers something unusual, a tragic spectacle of normal, recognizable and utterly sympathetic people condemning themselves.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2006

An unsettling drama by the director of two other remarkable films about class illusions, Human Resources and Time Out.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 25, 2006

The movie avoids devolving into polemic by treating its characters as individuals.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 18, 2006

In its way, the film is a piercing indictment, though it makes its point without much screaming, hectoring or preening. It's quietly terrific.

| Aug 17, 2006

At 60, with three 2006 releases in the can, Rampling still seems an international treasure, a great camera subject and a truly daring actress.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 17, 2006

Boasts another formidable and fine-tuned performance from the great Charlotte Rampling.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 4, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 4, 2006

Cantet's fascinating, troubling drama has many meanings.

| Jul 21, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 20, 2006

Heading South is an absorbing extension of Cantet's abiding obsession with the seeding of political inequality in intimate relations.

Full Review | Jul 20, 2006

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.

Full Review | Jul 19, 2006

What 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.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 12, 2006

The film is rich, cultured and slightly tiresome.

| Jul 8, 2006

Heading South is a seemingly straightforward and simple picture that's really defiantly complex, sexually, politically and emotionally.

Full Review | Jul 7, 2006

A powerful cocktail of not just sex and love but race, poverty, colonialism and jealousy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 7, 2006

A well-acted but misguided tale of displaced sexual longing on the beaches of Baby Doc Duvalier's 1970s Haiti.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 7, 2006

As a glimpse into a curious subculture this provokes interest, but in dramatic and political terms it's a missed opportunity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 7, 2006

The new film by Laurent Cantet (Human Resources and the masterpiece Time Out) is evocative and disturbing.

| Original Score: B | Jul 6, 2006