Heading South

Heading South
Film poster
FrenchVers le sud
Directed byLaurent Cantet
Screenplay byRobin Campillo
Laurent Cantet
Based onLa Chair du Maître
by Dany Laferrière
Produced bySimon Arnal-Szlovak
Caroline Benjo
Carole Scotta
StarringCharlotte Rampling
Karen Young
Louise Portal
Ménothy Cesar
CinematographyPierre Milon
Edited byRobin Campillo
Distributed byHaut et Court (France)
Release dates
  • September 2005 (2005-09) (Venice)
  • 25 January 2006 (2006-01-25) (France)
Running time
108 minutes
CountriesFrance
Canada
Belgium
LanguagesFrench
English
Haitian Creole
Budget€5 million[1]
Box office$2.4 million[1]

Heading South (French: Vers le sud) is a 2005 French-Canadian-Belgian drama film directed by Laurent Cantet and based on three short stories by Dany Laferrière. It depicts the experiences of three middle-aged white women in the late 1970s, travelling to Haiti for the purposes of sexual tourism with young men. Their adventures (as seen in their eyes) are juxtaposed with class issues and the deteriorating political climate of Haiti at the time of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier. The women demonstrate different attitudes to the complex situation.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Vers le sud". JP's Box-Office.
  2. ^ Stephen Holden, “Laurent Cantet’s ‘Heading South’ Shows the Ache of Blinding Lust in a Sexual Paradise Lost,” Movie Review, The New York Times (2006‑07‑07).

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