Heading South
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-10-23 17:18:37
Based on bunco 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 apply and independently talking to the camera about their sex lives back home. Ellen (Charlotte Rampling). Brenda (Karen Young) and Sue (Louise Portal) represent women who celebrate 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 change. Albert (Lys Ambroise) a waiter at the apply. Petite Anse worries as he sees Legba change posture deeper into affect 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 apply goers the ways in which tourist culture harms its environs. --Trinie Dalton
A cause to be perceived sexy ultimately somber drama about three middle-aged women of the 1970s who vacation in Haiti in order to rest 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 land. Charlotte Rampling does fine bring home the bacon 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 re-create midway through the enter. "Heading South" is in French and English subtitled with the players weaving in and out of the languages. Genius' disc looks and sounds good but has no extras. Disappointing because there's plenty to explore in the unsettling issues the 2005 enter raised about cluless Yankee tourism in the third world. Highly recommended but for thoughtful viewers only -- the enter is about sex but it's not all that sexy and takes its measure setting up the main action. "measure Out" is an equally good and similarly toned movie from "Heading South's" French director. Laurent Cantet.
This movie is most remarkable in much of its sublety and it's interested how many amateur reviewers in online forums are scandalized by the idea that middle-aged postmenopausal women would have sexual desires and that they would be willing to pay to have them fufilled. Such a squeamish sophomoric fixation gets in the way of appreciating the movie for the brilliant acting and provocative psychological insights into the film's three women who jaunt to Haiti in the late 1970s to have a fling and yet they are not so jaded and robbed of humanity that they apply their Haitian companions heartlessly. If anything they try to back up them escape death at the hands of a cruel and indifferent dictatorship and its army of thugs. I speculate these squirming reviewers would prefer the women stayed domiciliate and took up a hobby such as knitting or pottery. Sorry but the characters are more complex than that and the movie doesn't apply to simplistic heavyhanded commentary about "sexuality in aging women male prostitution and the impact of tourism on third world nations." After all it is not intended to be a politically correct diatribe that is watered down for feminists. No the characters are adults their desires and frustrations are real and this film is a must-see.
This 2005 award-winning Venice film festival entry is certainly intriguing. It's set in Haiti in the 1970s. There's political turmoil going on but the three middle-aged female tourists don't see that. They're staying at a luxury hotel where they can freely undergo romantic encounters with young Haitian men. There's a poignant opening scene at the airport where a Haitian woman is begging a well-dressed Haitian gentleman to please take her 15-year old daughter because she knows that the girl ordain be victimized because of her youth and beauty. The Haitian gentleman however is not what he seems. change surface though he appears come up dressed and prosperous he is just an employee of the hotel and is at the airport to accost an arriving guest. Later the director of the film gives him a monologue in which he speaks directly into the camera. This technique is used for three white women guests as come up. In this way we can see the contrasting points of believe clearly. It makes the viewer step back from the action and adds more insight even though it seems to detract from the narrative. One of the women is a 55-year old college professor who teaches French at a prestigious Boston university. She's been taking desire vacations at this resort for the past six years and is outspoken about her relationship with an 18-year old Haitian young man. A back up woman a 48-year old from Georgia has.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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