Heading South

Name: Vers le sud
Genre: Drama
Released: 2006-01-25
Duration: 1 h 48 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Karen Young, Louise Portal

Original title: Vers le sud

20052005
UnratedUnrated
1h 48min

6.4/10

2.7K

Charlotte Rampling, Louise Portal, and Karen Young in Vers le sud (2005)

Drama

Three female tourists have their eyes opened while visiting the poverty-stricken and dangerous world of 1980s Haiti.Three female tourists have their eyes opened while visiting the poverty-stricken and dangerous world of 1980s Haiti.Three female tourists have their eyes opened while visiting the poverty-stricken and dangerous world of 1980s Haiti.

6.4/10

2.7K

Director
- Laurent Cantet
Writers
- Laurent Cantet(scenario)
- Robin Campillo(scenario)
- Dany Laferrière(based on three stories from the book "La Chair du Maître" by)
Stars

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Awards
- 3 wins & 1 nomination

Charlotte Rampling at an event for Vers le sud (2005)

Karen Young at an event for Vers le sud (2005)

Laurent Cantet and Karen Young at an event for Vers le sud (2005)

Charlotte Rampling, Louise Portal, and Karen Young at an event for Vers le sud (2005)

Charlotte Rampling, Laurent Cantet, Louise Portal, and Karen Young at an event for Vers le sud (2005)

Louise Portal at an event for Vers le sud (2005)

Director
- Laurent Cantet
Writers
- Laurent Cantet(scenario)
- Robin Campillo(scenario)
- Dany Laferrière(based on three stories from the book "La Chair du Maître" by)
All cast & crew

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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... —Guy Bellinger

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Genre
- Drama
Certificate
- Unrated
Parents guide
- Add content advisory

Trivia
Part of the film was to be shot in Haiti but only one week's filming took place because political events prevented the crew from staying longer. The rest of the film was shot in the Dominican Republic, in neighboring Santo Domingo.

Goofs
When Brenda is desperately looking for Legba and she wanders around the village at night, one of the guys she crosses by is wearing a Larry Johnson NBA New York Knicks basketball jacket with number 2. Larry Johnson played for the Knicks in the mid '90s.

Quotes
[recalling her first time with Legba]
Brenda: We were both lying in our bathing suits on a big rock, basking in the sun. His body fascinated me. Long, lithe, muscular, his skin glistened. I couldn't take my eyes off him. And the later it got, the more I was losing my mind. He was, he was lying there beside me, his eyes were shut. I remember every move I made, as if it was yesterday. I edged my hand over and placed it on his chest. Legba opened his eyes and immediately closed them again. That encouraged me and I, I moved my hand down his body. Such soft, young skin. He was motionless. And I slid two fingers into his bathing suit and touched his cock. Almost immediately, it started getting hard, growing in the palm of my hand, until it just popped out. His arms were beside his body. He breathed faintly, but, but very regularly. I looked around to see that no one was coming and I threw myself on him. I literally threw myself on him. It, it was so violent, I couldn't help but scream. I, I think I never stopped screaming. It was my first orgasm. I was 45.

Connections
Edited into La dérive douce d'un enfant de Petit-Goâve (2009)

Soundtracks
Sobo
Traditional
Performed by Ti Koka et Wanga Negès

Top review

6/10

Sex starved in Haiti! YAY!

A great topic and script headline 'Heading South' a movie about three women who vacation in Haiti in the 1970's for the sun and surf, but mainly to bed any black men they can find (who are available for the price). I mean, THAT'S fabulous! Who would've thought of that? All of them though, seem to have sights on one man, Legba. The competition for this man, soon becomes to the point that Legba tries to get out of his job as stud-for-hire, to somewhat catastrophic results. The three women, headed by the always excellent Charlotte Rampling, are quite great here, but the star here is the actor playing Legba, Menothy Cesar. The story essentially revolves around him, and he does a great job with actually a really demanding role.

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