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Heading South
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
EAN: 0796019798174
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Netflix
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Netflix
MPN: 79817
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:
Haiti late 1970's. Sea sex and sun for Ellen Brenda and Sue three North American ladies on the wrong side of forty or fifty-odd going through an enchanted interlude. Lonely forsaken neglected by men in their native countries they can indulge here in carnal exultation without shame thanks to handsome local young men they pay a few dollars. Ellen is a Boston French literature professor Brenda an unfulfilled wife from Savannah Georgia and Sue a sexually frustrated but good-natured Canadian factory worker. In this second garden of Eden they don't care too much about the neighboring poverty nor about Baby Doc's violent dictatorship. The trouble is that that two of the three women have sights on a single man Legba. And Legba is beginning to be fed up with being a stud...System Requirements:Run Time: 105 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: LATIN/DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 796019798174 Manufacturer No: 79817
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
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Rating:  - "Tourists never die"
Political colonization may be over, but it's been succeeded in this globalized age by a much more effective cultural and economic colonization. "Heading South" dramatizes this new stage in the unbalanced relationship between the "first" and "third" worlds. But the film isn't merely political commentary. It's also a parable about the deep pull of sexual passion and human loneliness.
Set in Papa Doc Duvalier's Haiti, the film focuses on three North American women, Ellen (Charlotte Rampling), ... Read More
Rating: - More on sex tourism
People who like "Heading South" may be interested in a book about sex tourism in Haiti, albeit in this case men looking for women. The book is Naked in Haiti: A sexy morality tale about tourists, prostitutes & politicians. It's fiction, but set in Port-au-Prince. Enjoy.
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 Rampling), ... 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? No, calm ... 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 through ... Read More
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