Saad Khan L'autre Monde – Black Heaven – TRASH IT (C+) L'autre Monde is a weird exotic French movie about a boy getting obsessed with the suicidal girl. The beginning of the movie is interesting and it seems very real but once the whole Black Hole game starts it kind of put the movie into another track. The Black Hole Tron lookalike scenes are not interesting, it's kind of weird. Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet is good but there is nothing much he could have done in it. Louise Bourgoin is exotic and Pauline Etienne is cute. On the whole L'autre is a perfect French movie everyone should avoid as it ruins the concept of the French movies.

tarzandavid1 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!

charles000 This work was surprisingly well done, in various ways. Some of the other reviews I have read tend to make note of how unusual it might be that a young fellow would become "fatally attracted" (that's not a spoiler) as it were to a virtual entity in cyber space, to the point of abandoning his current girlfriend in the real world.Actually, that aspect has more parallels in the real world than some may realize. Having been acquainted with the virtual reality / cyber space avatar development domain for well over a decade (I was one of the early "residents" in Alpha World), and looking at examples such as 2nd Life currently, there are real examples of people who become completely consumed with their virtual existence, to the point of losing connection with the real world.This is not entirely unusual, so it was not that much of a stretch to identify with the story portrayed here in Black Heaven.The interesting twist is how the "Sam" avatar character had her live counterpart in the real world, and she would ensnare real people into committing, well, let's just say, extreme acts of devotion . . . and I won't say much more than that . . . which translated into and through consequences in her avatar world.It's a good story, very unique and well portrayed. It's not a flashy special effects extravaganza, though the virtual reality scenes are nicely done, but it is definitely a thinking person's film. I thoroughly recommend it as an interesting example of this genre'.

sgcim 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.