Set in Haiti at the end of the ’70s, “Heading South” (or “Vers le Sud”) is the story of several wealthy middle-aged women who recapture their youth each summer. They leave their responsibilities at home and travel to a beach near Port-au-Prince, where they spend three months swimming, sunbathing and buying the affections of local young men.
- Jessica Boullion
- “If you smoke one, you might as well smoke 30.” (Focus)
“Welcome to paradise,” one socialite says to another upon her arrival.
Ellen (Charlotte Rampling, “Swimming Pool”) plays a British professor of French literature from Wellesley, a woman who’s come to Haiti every summer for years, always returning to a man named Legba (M