Synopsis
Haiti, in the early eighties. A small hotel beside a beach paradise. A few single North American women have settled there among the flocks of tourists: Brenda, politically correct and in her forties; Ellen, a college professor, around fifty, who’s rather used to ruling the roost; Sue, from Quebec, forthright, plump, and vivacious. A gang of young men hover around the hotel, exchanging their charms and warmth for a few favors. 18-year-old Legba is one of them. Drop-dead gorgeous, he’s Ellen’s favorite. The women reconnect with him each year, but this time he’s going to change their lives.
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Actors (6)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Haut et Court
- Co-production : France 3 Cinéma
- Foreign production company : Les Films Séville
- Film exports/foreign sales : Celluloid Dreams
- French distribution : Haut et Court
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producers : Caroline Benjo, Carole Scotta, Simon Arnal-Szlovak
- Assistant director : Sylvie Peyre
- Author of original work : Dany Laferrière
- Screenwriters : Laurent Cantet, Robin Campillo
- Director of Photography : Pierre Milon
- Production Manager : Jacques Arhex
- Editor : Robin Campillo
- Sound editors : Valérie Deloof, Agnès Ravez
- Production Designer : Franckie Diago
- Costume designer : Denis Sperdouklis
- Sound Mixer : Jean-Pierre Laforce
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Drama
- Production language : French, English
- Coproducer countries : France, Canada
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Canada)
- Production year : 2005
- French release : 25/01/2006
- Runtime : 1 h 45 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 107.737
- Visa issue date : 15/12/2005
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
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News & awards
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Selections (23)
Awards (1)
Venice International Film Festival
Italy, 2005
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Promising Young Actor or Actress : Ménothy Cesar
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About
Heading South by Laurent Cantet (Vers le sud, France/Canada, 2005, 105 min.). Laurent Cantet’s (Time Out) third feature, an investigation of sexual tourism, is arguably his most achieved and certainly his most challenging. The setting is a beach resort in Haiti in the late 1970s, where middle-aged North American women (with a lead role for Charlotte Rampling as a Wellesley College professor) go to be sexually pampered by young black men, rewarding them with economic and quasi-maternal favors. Outside the hotel’s artificial bubble, the Duvalier regime is in power, and it can’t be long before Legba, one of the young men, falls foul of the all-powerful Macoute militia. Basing their script on stories by the Haitian writer Dany Laferrière, Cantet and regular co-writer Robin Campillo (director of this year’s They Came Back) sensitively but trenchantly look into a complex nexus of sexual and political issues. Description adapted from the London Film Festival.
