Vers le sud.

Stephen Holden finds Laurent Cantet's Heading South to be "one of the most truthful examinations ever filmed of desire, age and youth, and how easy it is to confuse erotic rapture with love."

Writing in the Voice, J Hoberman finds it an "intelligent movie, not so much salacious as affecting but ultimately less analytical than overwrought."

"Cantet makes his points about race, class, oppression and poverty with reasonable subtlety," writes the Telegraph's David Gritten. "Yet, once he has done so, the film runs out of steam."

More from Stephanie Zacharek in Salon, where Andrew O'Hehir talks with Charlotte Rampling, and from Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian, where it's Stuart Jeffries who interviews Rampling.

Jennifer Merin talks with Cantet for the New York Press.

Online listening tip. Rampling on the Leonard Lopate Show.

Update, 7/8: Sarah Silver opens the Reverse Shot round at indieWIRE.

Posted by dwhudson at July 7, 2006 4:22 PM