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Vers le Sud
GENRE: Drama
ACTORS:
Charlotte Rampling
Karen Young
Louise Portal
Lys Ambroise
Menothy Cesar
DIRECTOR: Laurent Cantet
WRITER: Robin Campillo, Laurent Cantet
PRODUCER: Simon Arnal,Caroline Benjo,John Hamilton
DISTRIBUTOR: Celluloid Dreams
On the sun drenched island of Haiti in the '70s, foreigners idle away their vacations in the palm-fringed paradise of the beach hotels. Brenda, Ellen and Sue, three North American women, converge on the island looking for flirtation, relaxation and respite from their colorless jobs and marriages. They find what they are looking for in Legba an enigmatic local adonis whose beauty and passion has them enthralled. It is this passion that will lead them away from the guilded cage of tourism and will open their eyes to the poverty stricken and dangerous world of Haiti at the end of "Baby Doc" Duvalier's notoriously violent regime.
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Filmed around Las Terrenas, on Playa Coson and Punta Bonita, Samana Peninsula. Some of the extra they are locals and one of them became a celebrity of sorts in Las Terrenas. Movie is not available on DVD legally, but is widely available as a pirated copy. A trailer available here: Trailers for Vers le sud (2005)
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I rented that DVD a couple weeks ago.... crap! I could barely sit through it. It was soooo boring. Beautiful setting, but the plot is pretty skimpy.
Old maid private girl school teacher, frequent visitor, queen bee of the sex tourists, has her sankie, dances merengue, loves paradise, gives him some space, he hooks up with another return guest younger, possessive, they dine in the hotel restaurant together breaking the rules, there is lust, jealousy, they fight, he fights with the old Maid, runs to his beautiful Haitian ex-girlfriend, now lover to the General
they get caught together, executed, naked bodies wash up on the beach.
Old maid wonders if they were doing the deed, chews out the young tourist, lays blame, goes home to the States with tears in her eyes 'cuz she really loved him that beautiful boy.
There you have it.