Black Heaven (2010)

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

To reply sgcim , (Warning:SPOILER below) 1."Are we supposed to believe that she has done this before and survived, when she would have died if Gaspard hadn't pulled her out of the car?" A: Yes, I believe Audrey and her brother have done this a couple of times before and she survived a couple of times as well, because she does wanna die at all -- she is doing this to fulfill the previous guys'suicide will and her brother's "Satisfaction" ,and he doesn't want her die either -- they love each other deeply.Anyway,Vincent is a super freak and obsessed in "helping" others "commit suicide" -- under the help of his sister Audrey, who was almost fully brainwashed and controlled by him. While Audrey is a bit kind than her brother that she finally killed herself for being tired of all this -- especially by seeing Gaspard gonna be killed by her brother, while she know Gaspard does not wanna commit suicide at all.Also,I think In the game the brother kept playing his sister's role -- Sam,and seduce those who are tired of living to come out and meet Audrey to commit suicide "together".2. What is this movie trying to say? A: Everybody has a " Black Hole "in his/her mind, if he/she go deeply into it and be obsessed, then may become the slave of his/her original desire and go to extreme...Besides,I think the director strongly hold a negative opinion on online video games, which (he may believe)inspired our evil and original desires -- like violence and eroticism, and he just want us to stay away from it, coz the whole story is basically about a young guy betrayed his gf and followed his original desire then being involved in all this mess,but finally got forgiven after crying in the police station... (the plot in the end is really a bit abrupt and naive.) In a word, it's an interesting movie, fantastic animation!

L'autre Monde is a French drama which starts with the life of two "teens" (boyfriends) and they find a cellphone of an unknown person. They start to get involved in her life and the things she does, this will take Gaspard to find a virtual online game (the title of the movie refers to this game) and the plot will get so much exciting. I really liked this movie because I think it is very interesting and cool the story and how the facts happen over the course of the plot. To talk about the actors i have to say that i really love Louise Bourgoin in all the senses, it is really one of my favorite actresses, and this movie is not the exception. I really enjoyed it and I hope you too, i give it an 8/10. regards. maxi0305

I loved the game sequences, you get the feeling they really captured the spirit of online gaming and the game world here is dark and compelling. The story has to do with sexual obsession, a boy falls for a tragic femme fatale who appears to be trying to commit suicide. The relationship is realized in part in the game world, a eerie cyber world called BlackHole where the mystery woman has a character called Sam. I found myself wishing there actually was such a game because the graphics were so beautiful in a haunting sort of way. The game in Black Heaven was much more interesting than the ugly game world realized in "eXistenZ". Unfortunately, the backstory just doesn't live up to the potential of the fictional game and the ending is abrupt. Still, I found Black Heaven to hold my interest. Perhaps if the main character Gaspard (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) hadn't been played as such a dimwitted dork the mystery might have had more tension. As such he's way too passive and detached. This could have been a great thriller if more story action had taken place in that fascinating game world.

If you're going to make a film, at least try to have a coherent story that will leave the viewer with a sense that something meaningful has happened. This film failed to do so, and seemed like it was written by an adolescent who was trying to emulate David Lynch, but lacked the maturity to carry it out. It starts with a Blue Velvet-like opening, with a young couple in the South of France,finding a cell phone that leads them to a young man and woman attempting suicide by pills and gas fumes in a car. The guy dies, but the young woman survives because they pulled her out of the car. They hear someone running away in the woods. The lead male character, Gaspard, finds a camera on the dashboard that has filmed the would-be suicide, pockets it and takes it home and views it. He is smitten by the blonde woman would-be suicide, and tries to find out who she is by a reference to a virtual reality program the couple mentioned before they tried to end it all. He goes with his friends to smoke some dope in an apartment where the mysterious blonde and her brother happen to live. ****SPOILER***I could go on and fill in the rest of the story, but let's just say Gaspard rejects his girlfriend and goes after the blonde, only to find out her brother is using her to lure suicidal men to their doom so he can film their suicides. Huh? Are we supposed to believe that she has done this before and survived, when she would have died if Gaspard hadn't pulled her out of the car? Are we supposed to believe that the only way he can satisfy this fetish(?)is to have his sister kill herself? What is this movie trying to say? It ends with Gaspard crying in the police station and telling his original girlfriend he really loves her. The film had good acting, great animation, an electronic music score with some catchy pan-diatonicism, and was shot and directed very well; too bad a better story line couldn't have been worked out.