Black Heaven

Black Heaven (original title: L'Autre monde) is a 2010 French drama film directed by Gilles Marchand and starring Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Louise Bourgoin, Melvil Poupaud and Pauline Etienne. It tells the story of Gaspard, who is lured by a beautiful girl into an obsessive, deadly video game. Plot Gaspard is a young man who leads a visibly carefree life in the South of France. His life changes when his new girlfriend Marion finds a mobile phone in a changing room on the beach. This belongs to a certain Dragon and several messages are addressed to a certain Sam. The last message contains a time and location for a date. Gaspard and his girlfriend also decide to go to the appointment, where they do indeed see both Dragon and Sam show up. Sam turns out to be a beautiful young woman whose real name is Audrey and to which Gaspard is immediately attracted. Instead of returning the cell phone to Dragon, Marion and Gaspard decide to follow Audrey and Dragon instead. After a visit to a DIY store, both couples end up in a deserted corner at the end of a dirt road. Marion and Gaspard have lost sight of Audrey and Dragon for a moment, and when they find them again, a tragedy appears to have occurred: Dragon and Sam/Audrey have tried to commit suicide using a plastic snake and Dragon's car. Marion and Gaspard make an attempt to save them, but for Dragon, their help comes too late. Audrey with faint signs of life survives by Marion giving her rescue breaths until the medics arrive. The experience has scarred Gaspard heavily. He continues to see Marion, but he secretly fantasizes about Audrey. Through another message on Dragon's cell phone, he discovers that both Dragon and Audrey were active on an online computer game called "Black Hole". Sam turns out to be the name of Audrey's avatar in this game. A second chance encounter with Audrey as he finds her and finds a tattoo up to her butt cracks which says "heaven" as gets dressed while naked in a changing room in real life makes Gaspard search for her alter ego in the gaming world. Eventually he finds (thanks to his own avatar Gordon) Sam back in a virtual private club in Black Hole.