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.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 1 nomination
Storyline
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- TriviaPart 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.
- GoofsWhen 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.
- ConnectionsEdited into La dérive douce d'un enfant de Petit-Goâve (2009)
- SoundtracksSobo
Traditional
Performed by Ti Koka et Wanga Negès
Charlotte Rampling as Ellen has relatively few scenes, but leaves a great impression as a college professor whose value in the sexual marketplace shoots up when she leaves Boston for the tropics. She doesn't seem very bitter about this, just accepts it as part of the aging process. Karen Young is new to me, most of her work has been done for TV. Her part is different, more spiritual, less grounded in the realities of here and now. She has less inner resources to cope with the chaos and violence of Haiti. Louise Portal is one of my favorite Quebec actresses, known to foreign viewers through Denis Arcand's very funny Decline of The American Empire. Here she plays a woman who is simpler than Ellen or Brenda, happier and less conflicted about growing old.
Cantet's direction of actors and description of the poverty and desperation, as well as the beauty of the Haitian locales is very effective. I wondered what he was going to do after Time Out, that wintry cry of despair from the French Alps, and he hasn't disappointed me.
- bob998
- Apr 27, 2006
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $898,468
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,200
- Feb 5, 2006
- Gross worldwide
- $3,294,052
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1