Black Heaven

Plot

An innocent young man becomes enamored with a mysterious girl. He is lured into "Black Hole" – a dark, obscure video game world of avatars with deadly serious intentions in the real world.

Release Year: 2010

Rating: 5.5/10 (740 voted)

Director:
Gilles Marchand

Stars: Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Louise Bourgoin, Melvil Poupaud

Storyline
An innocent young man becomes enamored with a mysterious girl. He is lured into "Black Hole" – a dark, obscure video game world of avatars with deadly serious intentions in the real world.

Writers: Gilles Marchand, Dominik Moll

Cast:

Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
–

Gaspard

Louise Bourgoin
–

Audrey

Melvil Poupaud
–

Vincent

Pauline Etienne
–

Marion

Pierre Niney
–

Yann

Ali Marhyar
–

Ludo

Patrick Descamps
–

Le père de Marion

Pierre Vittet
–

Le petit frère

Swann Arlaud
–

Dragon

Franck Merenda
–

Samos

(as Francesco Merenda)

Mohamed Diakite
–

Le patron du cyber café

Moon Dailly
–

Sam, la prostituée, l'acheteuse, la voix du jeu dans BlackHole

(voice)
(as Moon Daily)

Laurent Lacotte
–

Gordon dans BlackHole

(voice)
(as Laurent Lacote)

Romain Ogerau
–

L'acheteur dans BlackHole

(voice)
(as Romain Ogereau)

Patrick Vo
–

Le membre du club dans BlackHole

(voice)

Release Date: 14 July 2010

Filming Locations: Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Technical Specs

Runtime:

France: 105 min

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes:
When Audrey jumped from the roof, she could never have hit the ground that far away from the building (15-30 feet).

User Review

Interesting attempt that could have been better

Rating: 6/10


Praise Blue Velvet all you want, but you'll never hear me say it's a
great movie. I think it's a good movie. Enter Black Heaven thirty years
later, a little french movie that takes Lynch and goes Matrix with him.
The result is intriguing to be sure in a kind of experimental way, well
shot and scored, but in the end the movie is unable to surpass Lynch
for two reasons. It feels too mannered and refined and it comes with a
rushed finale.

Blue Velvet may have been ham fisted but Lynch was able to get some
suspense and eroticism out of it. Black Heaven cools it down a little
bit. On the positive side, we don't have to endure another Dennis
Hopper 'attempt to steal the show' performance, but the movie kind of
neglects to embrace what makes it different and potentially superior.
Black Heaven, actually has something interesting going for it. Part of
the movie plays out in a computer game, and there is the sense that
Black Heaven could do something more exiting with the story, but it
keeps everything neat and tidy, sometimes resorting to cheap measures.
The movie ends way too soon. Just when it looks like Black Heaven might
just turn up the heat, the game shuts down (so to speak) after a rather
disappointing pay off.

Looking back, I'll say we have a curious and mystique little indie
film, but it's not quite there.