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Mention sex tourism and one thinks of sweaty fat men wearing ill-fitting shirts. In Laurent Cantet's murky drama, however, the pleasure-seekers are wealthy middle-aged women who travel to '70s Haiti to be serviced by burly black beach boys. But what's impressive about the French writer-director's follow-up to 2001's Time Out is the way he downplays the more lurid aspects of this tale in favour of a layered, contemplative look at the emotional fallout experienced by both sides.
With Charlotte Rampling and Karen Young competing for the affections of Menothy Cesar's cocksure man-whore, this is at its core a twisted ménage à trois set against a menacing backdrop of brutal dictatorship. The parallels between the visitors' benign exploitation and the military junta's harsh repression are there to be drawn.
Ex-Bethesda dev turned indie says "good things often happen by accident," like that time Skyrim players convinced themselves the RPG's foxes were leading them to treasure
Palworld dev says the studio went dark for months because "the team was getting burnt out from all the social media stuff, I was getting burnt out, our CEO was under attack in Japan"
Metaphor: ReFantazio had to dial back an early battle system inspired by a notoriously brutal 2003 JRPG, because 20 years later, players found it "irrational" and "just not fun"
