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Haiti, late 1970's. Sea, sex and sun for Ellen, Brenda and Sue, three North American ladies, on the wrong side of forty or fifty-odd, going through an enchanted interlude. Lonely, forsaken, neglected by men in their native countries, they can indulge here in carnal exultation without shame, thanks to handsome local young men they pay a few dollars. Ellen is a Boston French literature professor, Brenda, an unfulfilled wife from Savannah, Georgia and Sue, a sexually frustrated ... (Full plot summary below)

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Haiti, late 1970's. Sea, sex and sun for Ellen, Brenda and Sue, three North American ladies, on the wrong side of forty or fifty-odd, going through an enchanted interlude. Lonely, forsaken, neglected by men in their native countries, they can indulge here in carnal exultation without shame, thanks to handsome local young men they pay a few dollars. Ellen is a Boston French literature professor, Brenda, an unfulfilled wife from Savannah, Georgia and Sue, a sexually frustrated but good-natured Canadian factory worker. In this second garden of Eden they don't care too much about the neighboring poverty nor about Baby Doc's violent dictatorship. The trouble is that that two of the three women have sights on a single man, Legba. And Legba is beginning to be fed up with being a stud...

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Baltimore Sun - 10/10 by Michael SragowHeading South is a hydra-headed love story, as dangerous as it is heated and complex.
The New York Times - 10/10 by Stephen HoldenA beautifully written, seamlessly directed film with award-worthy performances by Ms. Rampling and Ms. Young.
Film Threat - 10/10 by Phil HallCantet weaves a dark, disturbing story of hedonism, casual racism and the lethal consequences of self-indulgence in his superb drama Heading South.
Philadelphia Inquirer - 9/10 by Steven ReaBoasts another formidable and fine-tuned performance from the great Charlotte Rampling.
New York Post - 9/10 by Kyle SmithThe movie itself is a powerful cocktail of not just sex and love but race, poverty, colonialism and jealousy.
TV Guide Magazine - 9/10 by Ken FoxDirector 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.
Entertainment Weekly - 9/10 by Lisa SchwarzbaumA pleasurably unsettling, sunbaked tale of sex and politics set in late-1970s Haiti.
Salon - 8/10 by Stephanie ZacharekHeading South is a seemingly straightforward and simple picture that's really defiantly complex, sexually, politically and emotionally.
Wall Street Journal - 8/10 by Joe MorgensternIn its way, the film is a piercing indictment, though it makes its point without much screaming, hectoring or preening. It's quietly terrific.
Chicago Tribune - 8/10 by Michael WilmingtonThe racial and sexual politics of Heading South may trouble some audiences; Cantet is definitely not a moralist in the usual sense.

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