SummaryOn the sun drenched island of Haiti in the '70s, foreigners idle away their vacations in the palm-fringed paradise of the beach hotels. Brenda (Young), Ellen (Rampling) and Sue (Portal), three North American women, converge on the island looking for flirtation, relaxation and respite from their colorless jobs and marriages. They find what they ar... Read More
Directed By:Laurent Cantet
Written By:Laurent Cantet, Robin Campillo, Dany Laferrière, Sandy Whitelaw
Heading South
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
77% Positive
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100
Heading South is a hydra-headed love story, as dangerous as it is heated and complex.
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Boasts another formidable and fine-tuned performance from the great Charlotte Rampling.
80
Laurent Cantet's fascinating, troubling drama has many meanings.
75
Evocative and disturbing.
70
The film tackles more than it can master, but it's never less than fascinating, and all three leads are exceptional.
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Cantet's anticipated follow-up to "Time Out" supplants that pic's important issues with unexamined attitudes toward sex and the tropics.
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Among the creepiest adult monologues you'll hear in a regular theater this year comes from Karen Young in Heading South, a well-acted but misguided tale of displaced sexual longing on the beaches of Baby Doc Duvalier's 1970s Haiti.
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Production Company:
- Haut et Court
- Les Films Seville
- France 3 Cinéma
- StudioCanal
- Canal+
- TPS Star
- Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
- Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
- Société de Développement des Entreprises Culturelles (SODEC)
- Téléfilm Canada
- Soficinéma
- MEDIA Programme of the European Union
- Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep)
- Cofinova 1
Release Date:Jul 7, 2006
Duration:1 h 48 m
Awards
Venice Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Women Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
