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Director Laurent Cantet
follows up his critically acclaimed "Time
Out", set during an austere wintertime in
France and Switzerland, with Heading South,
set in Haiti during the late 1970s. Based on
stories by Dany Laferriere, the heat comes
not only from the summertime tropical
setting. Charlotte Rampling, Karen Young,
and Louise Portal head a group of single
middle-aged women who have come for sun,
fun, and romance. They desire the solicitous
attention of attractive young Haitian men,
and teenaged Legba (Menothy Cesar, winner of
the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the 2005
Venice Film Festival) is an especially
prized companion for whom the women vie. The
women tourists' Queen Bee, Rampling, "is the
ideal actress to convey" her Wellesley
professor's "liberated carnality, Bostonian
snobbery and racism, plus a deep
vulnerability" (Jay Weissberg, Variety).
Heading South received the Cinema for Peace
Award at Venice, and has been called "(a)
gem...shattering" (Stephen Holden, New York
Times.)
Click here to read the review by Stephen
Holden of the New York Times |
