Heading South (Vers le sud) Critic Reviews

A beautifully written, seamlessly directed film with award-worthy performances by Ms. Rampling and Ms. Young.Read the full review

A pleasurably unsettling, sunbaked tale of sex and politics set in late-1970s Haiti.Read the full review

In its way, the film is a piercing indictment, though it makes its point without much screaming, hectoring or preening. It's quietly terrific.Read the full review

Laurent Cantet's fascinating, troubling drama has many meanings.Read the full review

The film offers something unusual, a tragic spectacle of normal, recognizable and utterly sympathetic people condemning themselves.Read the full review

Cantet does something that educated, upscale audiences may find exasperating in the extreme: He takes a tinderbox of racial and sexual exploitation, pours gasoline all over it, and refuses to light the match.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

Cantet's anticipated follow-up to "Time Out" supplants that pic's important issues with unexamined attitudes toward sex and the tropics.Read the full review

Lonely, bitter, insecure and clearly unstable, the women are meant to level the emotional playing field and add depth to what is, at heart, a story about the exploitation of poor nations by rich and powerful ones. But they wind up being too bitter and unstable to elicit much sympathy.Read the full review