Critic Reviews

Cantet weaves a dark, disturbing story of hedonism, casual racism and the lethal consequences of self-indulgence in his superb drama Heading South.

A beautifully written, seamlessly directed film with award-worthy performances by Ms. Rampling and Ms. Young.

Heading South is a hydra-headed love story, as dangerous as it is heated and complex.

A pleasurably unsettling, sunbaked tale of sex and politics set in late-1970s Haiti.

Director Laurent Cantet's fourth feature abandons the contentious French workplaces of "Human Resources" and "Time Out" for sunnier climes, but this Haitian idyll is an equally excoriating look at labor and exploitation.

The movie itself is a powerful cocktail of not just sex and love but race, poverty, colonialism and jealousy.

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

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

Laurent Cantet's fascinating, troubling drama has many meanings.

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