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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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An intelligent movie, not so much salacious as affecting but ultimately less analytical than overwrought, Heading South makes its points in the first 20 minutes.
70
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
The film tackles more than it can master, but it's never less than fascinating, and all three leads are exceptional.
88
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.
58
Heading South's gender politics keep the movie from being too simple, since these women's self-indulgence can be read as a kind of unfettered (and even laudable) feminism, instead of just unintentional racism.
75
Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
Evocative and disturbing.
100
Cantet weaves a dark, disturbing story of hedonism, casual racism and the lethal consequences of self-indulgence in his superb drama Heading South.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Ray Bennett
Cantet keeps a lid on a story that he could have easily exploited, but he makes his points about beauty, fulfillment, self-indulgence and delusion with a measured hand.
80
Heading South is a seemingly straightforward and simple picture that's really defiantly complex, sexually, politically and emotionally.
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The New York Times by Stephen Holden
A beautifully written, seamlessly directed film with award-worthy performances by Ms. Rampling and Ms. Young.