Heading South (2005)

Original title

Vers le sud

Directed by

Laurent Cantet

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Canada

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 39 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three middle-aged women travel to Haiti in the 1970s for sexual encounters with local young men. The story contrasts their personal experiences with the country's growing political turmoil under Baby Doc Duvalier.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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