Black Heaven

Marchand just has no idea how to resolve the elaborate puzzle he's built, and once Black Heaven has to start providing some answers, it collapses into a pile of hackneyed contrivances and ridiculous revelations.

A young couple, Gaspard (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) and Marion (Pauline Etienne) are enjoying summer in the idyllic South of France when, by chance, they find a mobile phone. Their curiosity is piqued by the mysterious tone of the messages on the phone – as well as by photographs of a beautiful woman stored on it – so they decide to go along to the meeting-place of a church suggested by ‘Dragon’ (Swann Arlaud) to ‘Sam’ (Louise Bourgoin). Having got a glimpse of the couple, they decide that following them further would be an interesting afternoon’s diversion. This doesn’t prove as easy or as enjoyable as they anticipate: things turn sinister as, when they catch up with the couple, they find them attempting to commit suicide in their car. They manage to get into the vehicle to save the girl but it’s too late for her partner and, disturbingly, Marion swears that she saw someone watching this scene unfold from the nearby woods. As shaken as they both are by these events, Gaspard’s curiosity hasn’t been abated; he cannot resist stealing a camera evidently rigged up to film the suicide attempt, and watches it when he finds himself alone – though he doesn’t get the references to the ‘Black Beach’ mentioned by the couple, nor does he know why Dragon and Sam would (with such sentimental aplomb) record their deaths. Life for Marion and Gaspard proceeds as normal. However, when by chance…

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