Beyond existence (2024) Movie Script
Beyond existence
I bought a chicken this morning.
Can you take it? It's in the car trunk.
Ok I know.
This chicken's karma
has not been respected,
but I have to save money.
Because I know when we leave,
not when we come back.
You'll have to explain.
So
Pull on this part, I'll pull on the other.
We'll choose the direction
to the side that won't break.
On the right!
We don't eat the chicken?
Later!
Let me explain.
Yes. Please.
Humanity has gone
through 3 stages:
the shamanic world,
the religious world,
and today the physical world.
The next stage
It's the metaphysical world.
The alliance of
the spiritual and the rational.
In ancient Greek:
"Apocalypse" means "Revelation."
Ok.
Is that why we're in the car?
You have to put the bar very high.
Steve Jobs...
he wanted to change
the world with Apple.
He began in the garage,
and I leave from the garage,
you see?
My mother...
Hello, La!
Hello, it's mom!
What's happening?
Truth...
flows
Do you believe?
In what?
The influence.
It flows
La
You remember...
what I said?
Hmm... Vaguely.
Did you notice anything?
Mathilde! I was in the
same condition as you.
Everything was clear...
and now it's a black hole.
Oh yes!
I wanted to film you with the smartphone
but you refused.
Why?
A story about your soul...
I didn't understand and
I didn't want to upset you
I'm too dumb...
I had the solution...
flashing in front of me like a neon sign
When I try to remember it evaporates.
You were deep into a mystical trip,
I swear.
You were really into it!
You couldn't stop talking!
By the way
What is your greatest
mystical experience?
My greatest...
I'll tell you but you'll think I'm crazy.
Don't worry I think that already.
C'mon!
It was...
Wait!
You still fear for your soul?
No.
So let's go...
My greatest mystical experience...
In a forest at night, I was 16.
Campfire, ten of us.
I knew half.
We drank.
We cried. Danced like crazy.
And then it fell back a little.
And then I remember...
I was lying around the fire,
watching the flames,
I thought of nothing.
And then
And then I heard my name,
I don't really know anymore.
I looked up and saw across the fire,
laying like me,
a boy I had never seen.
He was handsome.
He looked at me a moment.
And then
Then he raised his hand,
like a magician...
and he landed it on the ground.
And I felt...
a current coming towards me,
I was like...
suspended...
Everything else seemed frozen.
He raised his hand.
And
And the world had begun to move.
As before.
And I looked at him.
I saw his aura,
he was bright.
I never saw him after
And others had seen him?
Apparently no one knew him.
Crazy!
You've never seen him in your dreams?
I did!
It's your father.
Now we can work quietly.
La
What?
We're going to
To establish a database.
Filming people,
and asking them
only one question,
the one you asked me.
What is your greatest mystical experience?
They will tell us
what they never dared to say.
It wil be
It will be a revelation.
For them and for us.
For them
and for us.
And this will change the world?
Of course! Nothing will change
without a massive awareness.
Mighty grand of you...
What?
To make a movie you need money.
We have $100.
Where will we sleep?
How will we buy gas?
We won't last 3 more days.
I let myself get carried away
And you still owe me a SIM card!
Damn what are you doing?!
Open the door.
Open this fucking door!
Right now!
I can't stand your vulgarity.
Mathilde please... open the door.
Fuck! I'm not well!
Probably the berries we ate.
I'll open up but you listen to me first.
I didn't want to use this kind of
reference, but now I have no choice:
"The Lord will supply all your needs"
it's the Bible or the Torah, I don't know.
Do you understand?
If I understand?
I understand
I understand you're nuts!!
It's a mistake, a very common one
but a real mistake.
I'm not nuts, it's the others
who are fundamentally lost
Me, I'm just... on par!
Ok.
You'll open the door now?
I'm a normal girl.
The others are not.
It's not because a disease reaches
the largest number that it's not a disease.
The sane
The healthy minds...
it's a small minority.
You make me laugh.
So we continue expecting everything
falls for us from heaven?
Yes.
There's nothing better to do?
No.
Mystical experience?
What do you mean by "mystical?"
A transcendental experience.
When you felt so good,
when everything was super intense.
When you could understand everything.
Don't you have anything
fucking better to do?
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
You're welcome.
I don't know if it's mystical,
It might be a bit silly.
But I like placing my hands
on a tree every morning.
Wherever I am
I put my hands on a tree.
And it feels good to me.
And I feel its energy
and it makes me feel good.
When I was 7 or 8,
I was sleeping
and had the bizarre but real sensation
that my grandmother entered my room,
sat on my bed,
took my hand and told me:
"I"m going."
Slowly.
The next morning I woke up,
with that in mind,
I got up, I ran into
the dining room,
and told: Mom, you'd better call
Grandma's because she's dead...
I didn't realize what I was saying.
She yelled at me,
"Don't joke about those things!"
I didn't understand
what was happening to me.
But I kept this memory,
very pregnant.
And she told me not
to mess with these things.
I left her to go play,
and two hours later the phone rang,
and my mom came
into my room and said:
"Grandma's dead..."
And I continued to play
because I already knew it.
At night yeah,
after 2 or 3 drinks
I can become very mystical.
Totally!
Otherwise not really.
I remember when I was 12
I was walking with friends
and we arrived near a ravine,
and I started feeling
dizzy like never before...
it was like the void
was calling me.
You are not Jehovah's Witnesses
by any chance?
It's not easy.
Yeah.
We still got some
interesting answers.
When they're not laughing at us!
What did you expect with such a question?
I realise that not everyone
is ready for change.
Chavignol goat cheese,
George Sand,
the Museum of Witchcraft.
The magic of Berry awaits you.
It was a message from
the Berry tourist office.
Are there witches there?
There were for sure.
I have a friend there now,
not far from Bourges,
he can lodge us.
We'll have to go through Orleans.
I'll give him a call...
as soon as I find a phone booth!
What's the name of the band
we were listening to?
On your dad's tape.
Magnetic something...
Von Magnet!
I'll end up believing in your
crazy bullshit. Come look.
Today's the 21st, right?
I think so.
So let's go.
I was off dancing alone,
and at some point found myself
moving outside my body,
hovering above the rave party I was at,
floating over to friends,
to the dance floor,
then back to my body
where I blacked out onto the ground.
People came over to wake me,
And
Everything was fine.
Then I went back to all
the people I'd seen,
who didn't know
I'd been on this mystical trip,
and described to them
everything they had been doing
and they confirmed that things
had really happened as I had seen them.
My greatest mystical experience?
I can say that it hasn't yet arrived,
but it should happen
I hope in a year or two,
when I have a kid
or something like that.
Making love to the woman you love.
This is the most mystical
experience that exists.
It was very late...
4 or 5 am.
We were at a Spanish movida,
and on our way home from the party,
we left town and ended up
in some wasteland
where a bunch of gypsy kids started
throwing rocks at us rather violently.
But not a single rock touched us,
me and my friend.
My girlfriend at the time.
There was something magical
about the moment...
the kids laughing,
it was aggressive at first,
and then it wasn't when they realised
that the stones couldn't touch us.
There was a magnificent sky
and it was like a dance with stones,
the moon, youth, great freedom.
That's it.
That's all.
Lolo!
He's not here or what?
Hold on!
Shouldn't you be there
when we arrive?
Because we're here...
Yeah, but are you kidding?
What will we do now?
You know to find...
the person we spoke to
on the phone yesterday.
Ok
Do you have a pen?
I'll write it
Direction Goaway
Is Goaway a village?
Ok
Wolves woods...
My greatest mystical experience...
Among other mystical experiences
It was after a
After a night of shamanism
and healing,
I was accompanied to a stream,
and in listening to what
was happening around me,
I was able to hear
the sound of the stream...
its dialogue,
its words and phrases.
At that moment,
a hawk flew overhead
and I realised the mysticism...
That everything is connected.
We are one...
as below,
as within,
as above.
Hello Madame.
We're doing a survey on mysticism
as part of a school project.
Would you mind answering our questions?
What do you want to know?
I'm a magnetist, that's all.
It's just simple questions,
and will only take a minute.
Come in.
So? So, how do you make a living?
I do what I can.
How do you pay the rent here?
That's not your business.
I'm just wondering how a mystical person
can live day-to-day?
Mystical... What are you talking about?
You don't know a thing.
Yes, I do.
You do some sort of
prayers to heal people.
Don't speak about
what you don't know!
Isn't it a kind of magic?
It's just a question,
if you don't want to answer...
Do you search for water, too?
Yes, I can dowse for water,
with a pendulum or divining rod.
So you're a wi...
uh, I mean you use a witching rod?
Do you call upon God
or other divine beings?
Where are you going with this?
Because we're in the country
we're hicks and idiots,
is that what you're saying?
Stop with your thing,
you piss me off,
hiding behind it the whole time!
Ok.
We didn't want to bother you.
She didn't mean anything by it,
look I turned off the camera.
You better!
But you have to admit...
sorcerer, source reader..
It's all the same, no?
Who do you take yourselves for,
Miss Brunette and Blondie?
Miss Brunette and Blondie?
Get out of here!
Get the hell out of here!!
We're fucked! We're fucked!
The bitch!
Let's go!
Get in the car!
Get in!!
Give me the key!
I don't have it!
You were driving, you have it!
La, over there!
Where?! Give it to me!
Not the key! The witch!
The bitch!
Stupid idiots.
We're not going to be knocked down by an
old hag who's eaten too many mushrooms!
That's just not us, Mathilde!
Don't worry, we'll find
you other witches...
That's not what's missing here!
They run rampant in the countryside!
I saw that on a TV report...
it's a shaman trick.
For healing.
I'm not sick...
and you're no shaman.
Yeah but you're stressed.
And if it's doesn't work,
it doesn't hurt.
He's cute!
Hello!
I am La.
Mathilde.
Are you from here?
We wanted to ask you... We're students
doing a thesis on mysticism.
And
We have some question
to ask if that's okay...
Great! Thanks, that's very cool.
Is it ok if we film you?
Sorry to be pushy but when we saw you
we wanted to see you...
well I mean to talk to you.
Ok, shall we go?
Where are you going?
It depends,
we don't know exactly,
depends of our feelings.
When there are good vibes.
When we want.
With you, we feel it...
What do you feel exactly?
Hey, we're the ones asking the questions!
Just kidding.
Good... vibrations?
Do you know the area?
A little.
Bourges, Issoudun...
But here not so much.
This here is the Black Valley.
But it doesn't exist.
How doesn't it exist?
The Devil's Pool.
George Sand's book.
Yeah, I read it.
She invented the name,
the Black Valley, for her novel.
It does not exist... but why not?
Prvert! I'm also cultured.
Shall we?
Whenever you're ready!
If you'd like...
I can play you something for you.
Why not?
Do you believe in sorcerers?
Sorcerers don't exist.
And yet we just met one
But it didn't go so well.
What exists here are healers,
those who block the fire
when you get burned.
People like that.
But sorcerers who cast evil spells...
don't exist.
You seem pretty sure of yourself.
You're confusing sorcerers
with source readers...
those who find water with their rods.
Don't take us for idiots.
You say there are people
who can block a fire...
But why not those who can start a fire?
It's hot...
are you trying to bewitch me?
I saw what you were doing,
I'm no fool.
Want me to play you a little tune?
Don't play with me.
I saw how you put
your hand on her back.
It's the witches' sabbath...
Stop...
Stop!
La!
You're going too fast!
We're a little less cheeky in the morning?
Where's the guy?
You're the one asking me that?
What are we doing now?
We're looking for gas.
Go ahead, start...
but easy.
After this refill, we're empty.
Drive economically.
They say it's really spiritual
to go on a fast.
Well, I hope because soon
we won't have a choice.
Don't break my vibe.
I'm not breaking anything,
I'm just trying to make you aware
of certain realities.
Everything's going to be fine.
Here, check out this guy...
he's cute. You like him.
What do you think?
We'll take him if you like.
Yeah, he's not bad.
He'll keep us company.
Hello!
Hello!
Where are you going?
Hey... west, towards Rennes or beyond.
Or beyond?
To the Arre Mountains in Brittany.
Ah Brittany... I've been to plenty
of techno festivals there!
Yeah, it's not bad for that.
Ok, we'll take you.
It was a reggae-dub festival in Rosporden.
There was a big, blue cloud in the pit,
like a stage screen.
But that was real.
It was after that it got complicated.
I felt at peace...
good people, good vibes.
I got into the groove.
And that was when I realised there
was something weird beside the singer.
At first it was shapeless,
like a cloud of smoke.
Then it became a silhouette,
almost human...
blue-grey...
a phantom.
It got closer to the singer,
behind him.
It looked like he felt its presence.
He was uncomfortable, sweating...
stopped moving.
Then the blue phantom started growing
until it reached the spotlights.
It stayed like that, fixed.
And then it disappeared.
The singer started moving, dancing...
totally into it!
Fuck yeah...
Yeah.
Yeah...
What will you do in Brittany?
Spend the winter.
I live in a sustainable community.
We live off our gardens.
And we take seasonal jobs.
That's what I did in Berry.
Harvesting grapes?
No, more like apples.
Left or right?
The eternal question...
In the direction of Morlaix is all I know.
You don't have a GPS?
We have an iPhone but no SIM card.
The network bothers her.
There's a satanic symbol
under the cross!
No, it's freemason.
What's it doing there?
That's kind of weird.
Aren't there druids out where you are?
Yeah, maybe.
What's that supposed mean?
Anyone can claim to
be a druid if they want.
So a lot of crazies run around the forest with
a sickle in hand, if you know what I mean.
That's freaky!
It's to gather mistletoe, La!
Look, I don't know anything about druids.
My thing: it's apples.
Have some lambic!
Smells like apples.
If it interests you, I can show you
something before arriving at my place:
the Mont Saint-Michel.
Sometimes there are druids.
Isn't the Mont Saint-Michel
supposed to be in Normandy?
No, I'm not talking about the one with tourists
and Mother-what's-her-name's omelettes.
This one's anti-capitalist.
And around it, there's no sea,
just heathland...
We shouldn't stay long
at Mont Saint-Michel.
Strange legends run in the night...
Ever heard of Ankou?
The Angel of Death...
Hello...
Hello...
Can I have some water please?
Still or sparkling?
Uh... tap?
Nice decour!
What troubled me most was
that it seemed to watch us.
There was a connection
between us and that thing.
I don't know what it was.
We turned off the 4x4, went down,
conscious of living something exceptional,
I did not know what it was,
whether human or not,
regardless, I came down,
I did not want to lose any detail,
I watched this thing with three
bright spots forming a triangle,
and then the thing began to move
too quickly from one point to another.
Sounds funny, what's that?
It's an investigation for
unusual experiences...
If you have one I'll record you.
No it's not my thing.
Go ask a specialist.
Hi! It seems that...
I know things about you.
Go on.
What do you know that I don't know?
Where you're going.
Oh yeah?
How do you know that?
It's a question of choice.
The present is binary as...
do I put celery in my tomato juice?
Or not?
The future is harder.
It's... hyper-choice,
it comes from all sides
and you must catch... the good way.
What do you want to know?
First, what's your name?
Marlne.
Do you know what we're doing, Marlne?
I heard people talking.
Earlier at this bar, everyone heard.
Well... Who are you?
What are you doing?
I am... connected?
Where are you going?
You said you knew.
Not where, only why.
To the Arre Mountains.
Looking for family.
We have a long way. So if you have
something to say: say it now,
- because we won't beat around the bush.
- You're right.
I don't know if she
will see her again but...
you will not be alone...
La!
Lea!
We're waiting for you.
What do you want to drink?
No thanks.
Hi! Do we know each other?
You're right, it's time to go.
Bye Marlne!
Thanks!
A couple from Nantes drowns
in the swamps near Arre Mountains
La!
Can you pass my cigs? They're in the back.
I don't understand.
Can you articulate?
Sex and mysticism
have always been closely linked.
Oh yeah?
Egyptians vowed a cult to...
To
The phallus.
So cool these Egyptians...
While the Greeks...
Too bad we're not alone.
Well... there's no crowd.
Makes sense.
No restaurant, no postcards...
no tourists!
And if someone wants to go for a drink?
Didn't think of that, huh?
Anarchist!
It's better to be alone.
Your community,
they don't expect you for diner?
Don't worry about me.
Coffee, tea, chocolate, Juice
This car is falling apart...
Slept well?
I'll tell you when I wake up.
Can't find Mathilde.
What's there?
A lake.
Let's go see?
For what?
I don't know, maybe
Maybe there are ducks,
it could be nice.
I doubt it.
Why?
It's not that kind of lake.
We'll leave a note on the car
for her to join.
She had not to be selfish.
I have to try other
ways. Do not wait for me
She's nuts!
Come back!
Leah come back!
Please!
That's so nice!
Fuck!
Help me!
Come on!
Seriously!
Don't leave the path!
It's swamps! You don't know swamps?
Sorry.
Who's that?
Sverine!
Hello, Pierre.
This is La.
She offered me for a ride from Berry.
Sverine.
Nolwenn told me that
Philip is arriving soon.
Turn off the light!
Hi!
Hi!
What are you doing here?
This is my home.
Don't you live in the Berry?
I live between two places.
You're gonna make me believe
it's a coincidence?
You knew this guy and told me nothing?
You know Phillip? that's a coinciden...
It's no coincidence!
My friend disappears and he appears,
what does that mean?
Nothing.
We met this guy in Berry!
The next day we offer you a free ride,
don't you think it's a little strange?
Don't move!
I slept at Phillip's the day
I was hitchhiking,
I didn't force you to take me..
What did you do to Mathilde?
Why we would have done something?
Because you're total psychopaths!
Psychopaths offers you
coffee, you want some?
Some booze?
Too early for me...
I'm worried for Mathilde.
She's a big girl, don't worry.
We don't have much wood.
We can pick up some in two hours.
He does that often?
When something is too full of energy
we shouldn't touch it.
Philip absorbs.
Thanks!
You're going to stay long?
Uh... no...
at the same time I just arrived.
I have a gift for you.
Take one.
I can shoot that?
If you want.
What do you do for a living?
I work in farms for the summer.
And I heal people sometimes.
With magnetism.
And Brittany?
I was born here.
When I was a kid my parents
left to work in the Berry.
Take her away.
It's you. We will speed things up.
We'll not sleep much this night.
Don't go anywhere before midnight.
After that Nolwenn will tell us what to do.
Don't worry,
it's always her choice.
And it usually works pretty well.
It's now.
We're going to show you Lea
You'll have to accept whatever happens.
Even if you don't agree.
Pierre?
Pierre!
Philippe!
Fuck, I can't believe it.
I don't know if you can hear me
but it's pointless to do that!
All...
All lines converge.
There are few way.
I hope you will forgive me.
La
La
Follow me
Hi La!
Look...
I wanted to tell you that
not everything depends on me.
But...
you're a nice girl and...
I hope we'll meet again.
Bye.
And suddenly I hear voices saying to me:
"Come now, it's happening!
Come with us!"
how to communicate without communicating
I didn't know if it was human or not...
we feel many presences in nature.
I came out of my body...
we see the links...
It was clear, I was
going into the forest...
and actions...
to reach the spirits.
between everything.
Hello?
Hello sir... it's La.
Hello La!
How are you?
Your car is well!
It's Mathilde, I... she is...
You want to speak with her?
Don't move.
Hello La?
Mathilde?
Are you okay?
Out of gas.
Sorry, I had to follow the track.
I did it Lea!
I was not alone, you know,
I've never been alone.
You've never been alone
in your head Mathilde.
Not only.
Did you meet people?
I've met a lot, I can tell you.
Not people.
But I was...
accompanied.
So you became friends with squirrels?
The farther I went...
the less I was alone.
So you managed to come back home?
Hitchhiking.
It's thanks to you, you know that?
There were lights.
Lights everywhere.
All around.
I bought a chicken this morning.
Can you take it? It's in the car trunk.
Ok I know.
This chicken's karma
has not been respected,
but I have to save money.
Because I know when we leave,
not when we come back.
You'll have to explain.
So
Pull on this part, I'll pull on the other.
We'll choose the direction
to the side that won't break.
On the right!
We don't eat the chicken?
Later!
Let me explain.
Yes. Please.
Humanity has gone
through 3 stages:
the shamanic world,
the religious world,
and today the physical world.
The next stage
It's the metaphysical world.
The alliance of
the spiritual and the rational.
In ancient Greek:
"Apocalypse" means "Revelation."
Ok.
Is that why we're in the car?
You have to put the bar very high.
Steve Jobs...
he wanted to change
the world with Apple.
He began in the garage,
and I leave from the garage,
you see?
My mother...
Hello, La!
Hello, it's mom!
What's happening?
Truth...
flows
Do you believe?
In what?
The influence.
It flows
La
You remember...
what I said?
Hmm... Vaguely.
Did you notice anything?
Mathilde! I was in the
same condition as you.
Everything was clear...
and now it's a black hole.
Oh yes!
I wanted to film you with the smartphone
but you refused.
Why?
A story about your soul...
I didn't understand and
I didn't want to upset you
I'm too dumb...
I had the solution...
flashing in front of me like a neon sign
When I try to remember it evaporates.
You were deep into a mystical trip,
I swear.
You were really into it!
You couldn't stop talking!
By the way
What is your greatest
mystical experience?
My greatest...
I'll tell you but you'll think I'm crazy.
Don't worry I think that already.
C'mon!
It was...
Wait!
You still fear for your soul?
No.
So let's go...
My greatest mystical experience...
In a forest at night, I was 16.
Campfire, ten of us.
I knew half.
We drank.
We cried. Danced like crazy.
And then it fell back a little.
And then I remember...
I was lying around the fire,
watching the flames,
I thought of nothing.
And then
And then I heard my name,
I don't really know anymore.
I looked up and saw across the fire,
laying like me,
a boy I had never seen.
He was handsome.
He looked at me a moment.
And then
Then he raised his hand,
like a magician...
and he landed it on the ground.
And I felt...
a current coming towards me,
I was like...
suspended...
Everything else seemed frozen.
He raised his hand.
And
And the world had begun to move.
As before.
And I looked at him.
I saw his aura,
he was bright.
I never saw him after
And others had seen him?
Apparently no one knew him.
Crazy!
You've never seen him in your dreams?
I did!
It's your father.
Now we can work quietly.
La
What?
We're going to
To establish a database.
Filming people,
and asking them
only one question,
the one you asked me.
What is your greatest mystical experience?
They will tell us
what they never dared to say.
It wil be
It will be a revelation.
For them and for us.
For them
and for us.
And this will change the world?
Of course! Nothing will change
without a massive awareness.
Mighty grand of you...
What?
To make a movie you need money.
We have $100.
Where will we sleep?
How will we buy gas?
We won't last 3 more days.
I let myself get carried away
And you still owe me a SIM card!
Damn what are you doing?!
Open the door.
Open this fucking door!
Right now!
I can't stand your vulgarity.
Mathilde please... open the door.
Fuck! I'm not well!
Probably the berries we ate.
I'll open up but you listen to me first.
I didn't want to use this kind of
reference, but now I have no choice:
"The Lord will supply all your needs"
it's the Bible or the Torah, I don't know.
Do you understand?
If I understand?
I understand
I understand you're nuts!!
It's a mistake, a very common one
but a real mistake.
I'm not nuts, it's the others
who are fundamentally lost
Me, I'm just... on par!
Ok.
You'll open the door now?
I'm a normal girl.
The others are not.
It's not because a disease reaches
the largest number that it's not a disease.
The sane
The healthy minds...
it's a small minority.
You make me laugh.
So we continue expecting everything
falls for us from heaven?
Yes.
There's nothing better to do?
No.
Mystical experience?
What do you mean by "mystical?"
A transcendental experience.
When you felt so good,
when everything was super intense.
When you could understand everything.
Don't you have anything
fucking better to do?
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
You're welcome.
I don't know if it's mystical,
It might be a bit silly.
But I like placing my hands
on a tree every morning.
Wherever I am
I put my hands on a tree.
And it feels good to me.
And I feel its energy
and it makes me feel good.
When I was 7 or 8,
I was sleeping
and had the bizarre but real sensation
that my grandmother entered my room,
sat on my bed,
took my hand and told me:
"I"m going."
Slowly.
The next morning I woke up,
with that in mind,
I got up, I ran into
the dining room,
and told: Mom, you'd better call
Grandma's because she's dead...
I didn't realize what I was saying.
She yelled at me,
"Don't joke about those things!"
I didn't understand
what was happening to me.
But I kept this memory,
very pregnant.
And she told me not
to mess with these things.
I left her to go play,
and two hours later the phone rang,
and my mom came
into my room and said:
"Grandma's dead..."
And I continued to play
because I already knew it.
At night yeah,
after 2 or 3 drinks
I can become very mystical.
Totally!
Otherwise not really.
I remember when I was 12
I was walking with friends
and we arrived near a ravine,
and I started feeling
dizzy like never before...
it was like the void
was calling me.
You are not Jehovah's Witnesses
by any chance?
It's not easy.
Yeah.
We still got some
interesting answers.
When they're not laughing at us!
What did you expect with such a question?
I realise that not everyone
is ready for change.
Chavignol goat cheese,
George Sand,
the Museum of Witchcraft.
The magic of Berry awaits you.
It was a message from
the Berry tourist office.
Are there witches there?
There were for sure.
I have a friend there now,
not far from Bourges,
he can lodge us.
We'll have to go through Orleans.
I'll give him a call...
as soon as I find a phone booth!
What's the name of the band
we were listening to?
On your dad's tape.
Magnetic something...
Von Magnet!
I'll end up believing in your
crazy bullshit. Come look.
Today's the 21st, right?
I think so.
So let's go.
I was off dancing alone,
and at some point found myself
moving outside my body,
hovering above the rave party I was at,
floating over to friends,
to the dance floor,
then back to my body
where I blacked out onto the ground.
People came over to wake me,
And
Everything was fine.
Then I went back to all
the people I'd seen,
who didn't know
I'd been on this mystical trip,
and described to them
everything they had been doing
and they confirmed that things
had really happened as I had seen them.
My greatest mystical experience?
I can say that it hasn't yet arrived,
but it should happen
I hope in a year or two,
when I have a kid
or something like that.
Making love to the woman you love.
This is the most mystical
experience that exists.
It was very late...
4 or 5 am.
We were at a Spanish movida,
and on our way home from the party,
we left town and ended up
in some wasteland
where a bunch of gypsy kids started
throwing rocks at us rather violently.
But not a single rock touched us,
me and my friend.
My girlfriend at the time.
There was something magical
about the moment...
the kids laughing,
it was aggressive at first,
and then it wasn't when they realised
that the stones couldn't touch us.
There was a magnificent sky
and it was like a dance with stones,
the moon, youth, great freedom.
That's it.
That's all.
Lolo!
He's not here or what?
Hold on!
Shouldn't you be there
when we arrive?
Because we're here...
Yeah, but are you kidding?
What will we do now?
You know to find...
the person we spoke to
on the phone yesterday.
Ok
Do you have a pen?
I'll write it
Direction Goaway
Is Goaway a village?
Ok
Wolves woods...
My greatest mystical experience...
Among other mystical experiences
It was after a
After a night of shamanism
and healing,
I was accompanied to a stream,
and in listening to what
was happening around me,
I was able to hear
the sound of the stream...
its dialogue,
its words and phrases.
At that moment,
a hawk flew overhead
and I realised the mysticism...
That everything is connected.
We are one...
as below,
as within,
as above.
Hello Madame.
We're doing a survey on mysticism
as part of a school project.
Would you mind answering our questions?
What do you want to know?
I'm a magnetist, that's all.
It's just simple questions,
and will only take a minute.
Come in.
So? So, how do you make a living?
I do what I can.
How do you pay the rent here?
That's not your business.
I'm just wondering how a mystical person
can live day-to-day?
Mystical... What are you talking about?
You don't know a thing.
Yes, I do.
You do some sort of
prayers to heal people.
Don't speak about
what you don't know!
Isn't it a kind of magic?
It's just a question,
if you don't want to answer...
Do you search for water, too?
Yes, I can dowse for water,
with a pendulum or divining rod.
So you're a wi...
uh, I mean you use a witching rod?
Do you call upon God
or other divine beings?
Where are you going with this?
Because we're in the country
we're hicks and idiots,
is that what you're saying?
Stop with your thing,
you piss me off,
hiding behind it the whole time!
Ok.
We didn't want to bother you.
She didn't mean anything by it,
look I turned off the camera.
You better!
But you have to admit...
sorcerer, source reader..
It's all the same, no?
Who do you take yourselves for,
Miss Brunette and Blondie?
Miss Brunette and Blondie?
Get out of here!
Get the hell out of here!!
We're fucked! We're fucked!
The bitch!
Let's go!
Get in the car!
Get in!!
Give me the key!
I don't have it!
You were driving, you have it!
La, over there!
Where?! Give it to me!
Not the key! The witch!
The bitch!
Stupid idiots.
We're not going to be knocked down by an
old hag who's eaten too many mushrooms!
That's just not us, Mathilde!
Don't worry, we'll find
you other witches...
That's not what's missing here!
They run rampant in the countryside!
I saw that on a TV report...
it's a shaman trick.
For healing.
I'm not sick...
and you're no shaman.
Yeah but you're stressed.
And if it's doesn't work,
it doesn't hurt.
He's cute!
Hello!
I am La.
Mathilde.
Are you from here?
We wanted to ask you... We're students
doing a thesis on mysticism.
And
We have some question
to ask if that's okay...
Great! Thanks, that's very cool.
Is it ok if we film you?
Sorry to be pushy but when we saw you
we wanted to see you...
well I mean to talk to you.
Ok, shall we go?
Where are you going?
It depends,
we don't know exactly,
depends of our feelings.
When there are good vibes.
When we want.
With you, we feel it...
What do you feel exactly?
Hey, we're the ones asking the questions!
Just kidding.
Good... vibrations?
Do you know the area?
A little.
Bourges, Issoudun...
But here not so much.
This here is the Black Valley.
But it doesn't exist.
How doesn't it exist?
The Devil's Pool.
George Sand's book.
Yeah, I read it.
She invented the name,
the Black Valley, for her novel.
It does not exist... but why not?
Prvert! I'm also cultured.
Shall we?
Whenever you're ready!
If you'd like...
I can play you something for you.
Why not?
Do you believe in sorcerers?
Sorcerers don't exist.
And yet we just met one
But it didn't go so well.
What exists here are healers,
those who block the fire
when you get burned.
People like that.
But sorcerers who cast evil spells...
don't exist.
You seem pretty sure of yourself.
You're confusing sorcerers
with source readers...
those who find water with their rods.
Don't take us for idiots.
You say there are people
who can block a fire...
But why not those who can start a fire?
It's hot...
are you trying to bewitch me?
I saw what you were doing,
I'm no fool.
Want me to play you a little tune?
Don't play with me.
I saw how you put
your hand on her back.
It's the witches' sabbath...
Stop...
Stop!
La!
You're going too fast!
We're a little less cheeky in the morning?
Where's the guy?
You're the one asking me that?
What are we doing now?
We're looking for gas.
Go ahead, start...
but easy.
After this refill, we're empty.
Drive economically.
They say it's really spiritual
to go on a fast.
Well, I hope because soon
we won't have a choice.
Don't break my vibe.
I'm not breaking anything,
I'm just trying to make you aware
of certain realities.
Everything's going to be fine.
Here, check out this guy...
he's cute. You like him.
What do you think?
We'll take him if you like.
Yeah, he's not bad.
He'll keep us company.
Hello!
Hello!
Where are you going?
Hey... west, towards Rennes or beyond.
Or beyond?
To the Arre Mountains in Brittany.
Ah Brittany... I've been to plenty
of techno festivals there!
Yeah, it's not bad for that.
Ok, we'll take you.
It was a reggae-dub festival in Rosporden.
There was a big, blue cloud in the pit,
like a stage screen.
But that was real.
It was after that it got complicated.
I felt at peace...
good people, good vibes.
I got into the groove.
And that was when I realised there
was something weird beside the singer.
At first it was shapeless,
like a cloud of smoke.
Then it became a silhouette,
almost human...
blue-grey...
a phantom.
It got closer to the singer,
behind him.
It looked like he felt its presence.
He was uncomfortable, sweating...
stopped moving.
Then the blue phantom started growing
until it reached the spotlights.
It stayed like that, fixed.
And then it disappeared.
The singer started moving, dancing...
totally into it!
Fuck yeah...
Yeah.
Yeah...
What will you do in Brittany?
Spend the winter.
I live in a sustainable community.
We live off our gardens.
And we take seasonal jobs.
That's what I did in Berry.
Harvesting grapes?
No, more like apples.
Left or right?
The eternal question...
In the direction of Morlaix is all I know.
You don't have a GPS?
We have an iPhone but no SIM card.
The network bothers her.
There's a satanic symbol
under the cross!
No, it's freemason.
What's it doing there?
That's kind of weird.
Aren't there druids out where you are?
Yeah, maybe.
What's that supposed mean?
Anyone can claim to
be a druid if they want.
So a lot of crazies run around the forest with
a sickle in hand, if you know what I mean.
That's freaky!
It's to gather mistletoe, La!
Look, I don't know anything about druids.
My thing: it's apples.
Have some lambic!
Smells like apples.
If it interests you, I can show you
something before arriving at my place:
the Mont Saint-Michel.
Sometimes there are druids.
Isn't the Mont Saint-Michel
supposed to be in Normandy?
No, I'm not talking about the one with tourists
and Mother-what's-her-name's omelettes.
This one's anti-capitalist.
And around it, there's no sea,
just heathland...
We shouldn't stay long
at Mont Saint-Michel.
Strange legends run in the night...
Ever heard of Ankou?
The Angel of Death...
Hello...
Hello...
Can I have some water please?
Still or sparkling?
Uh... tap?
Nice decour!
What troubled me most was
that it seemed to watch us.
There was a connection
between us and that thing.
I don't know what it was.
We turned off the 4x4, went down,
conscious of living something exceptional,
I did not know what it was,
whether human or not,
regardless, I came down,
I did not want to lose any detail,
I watched this thing with three
bright spots forming a triangle,
and then the thing began to move
too quickly from one point to another.
Sounds funny, what's that?
It's an investigation for
unusual experiences...
If you have one I'll record you.
No it's not my thing.
Go ask a specialist.
Hi! It seems that...
I know things about you.
Go on.
What do you know that I don't know?
Where you're going.
Oh yeah?
How do you know that?
It's a question of choice.
The present is binary as...
do I put celery in my tomato juice?
Or not?
The future is harder.
It's... hyper-choice,
it comes from all sides
and you must catch... the good way.
What do you want to know?
First, what's your name?
Marlne.
Do you know what we're doing, Marlne?
I heard people talking.
Earlier at this bar, everyone heard.
Well... Who are you?
What are you doing?
I am... connected?
Where are you going?
You said you knew.
Not where, only why.
To the Arre Mountains.
Looking for family.
We have a long way. So if you have
something to say: say it now,
- because we won't beat around the bush.
- You're right.
I don't know if she
will see her again but...
you will not be alone...
La!
Lea!
We're waiting for you.
What do you want to drink?
No thanks.
Hi! Do we know each other?
You're right, it's time to go.
Bye Marlne!
Thanks!
A couple from Nantes drowns
in the swamps near Arre Mountains
La!
Can you pass my cigs? They're in the back.
I don't understand.
Can you articulate?
Sex and mysticism
have always been closely linked.
Oh yeah?
Egyptians vowed a cult to...
To
The phallus.
So cool these Egyptians...
While the Greeks...
Too bad we're not alone.
Well... there's no crowd.
Makes sense.
No restaurant, no postcards...
no tourists!
And if someone wants to go for a drink?
Didn't think of that, huh?
Anarchist!
It's better to be alone.
Your community,
they don't expect you for diner?
Don't worry about me.
Coffee, tea, chocolate, Juice
This car is falling apart...
Slept well?
I'll tell you when I wake up.
Can't find Mathilde.
What's there?
A lake.
Let's go see?
For what?
I don't know, maybe
Maybe there are ducks,
it could be nice.
I doubt it.
Why?
It's not that kind of lake.
We'll leave a note on the car
for her to join.
She had not to be selfish.
I have to try other
ways. Do not wait for me
She's nuts!
Come back!
Leah come back!
Please!
That's so nice!
Fuck!
Help me!
Come on!
Seriously!
Don't leave the path!
It's swamps! You don't know swamps?
Sorry.
Who's that?
Sverine!
Hello, Pierre.
This is La.
She offered me for a ride from Berry.
Sverine.
Nolwenn told me that
Philip is arriving soon.
Turn off the light!
Hi!
Hi!
What are you doing here?
This is my home.
Don't you live in the Berry?
I live between two places.
You're gonna make me believe
it's a coincidence?
You knew this guy and told me nothing?
You know Phillip? that's a coinciden...
It's no coincidence!
My friend disappears and he appears,
what does that mean?
Nothing.
We met this guy in Berry!
The next day we offer you a free ride,
don't you think it's a little strange?
Don't move!
I slept at Phillip's the day
I was hitchhiking,
I didn't force you to take me..
What did you do to Mathilde?
Why we would have done something?
Because you're total psychopaths!
Psychopaths offers you
coffee, you want some?
Some booze?
Too early for me...
I'm worried for Mathilde.
She's a big girl, don't worry.
We don't have much wood.
We can pick up some in two hours.
He does that often?
When something is too full of energy
we shouldn't touch it.
Philip absorbs.
Thanks!
You're going to stay long?
Uh... no...
at the same time I just arrived.
I have a gift for you.
Take one.
I can shoot that?
If you want.
What do you do for a living?
I work in farms for the summer.
And I heal people sometimes.
With magnetism.
And Brittany?
I was born here.
When I was a kid my parents
left to work in the Berry.
Take her away.
It's you. We will speed things up.
We'll not sleep much this night.
Don't go anywhere before midnight.
After that Nolwenn will tell us what to do.
Don't worry,
it's always her choice.
And it usually works pretty well.
It's now.
We're going to show you Lea
You'll have to accept whatever happens.
Even if you don't agree.
Pierre?
Pierre!
Philippe!
Fuck, I can't believe it.
I don't know if you can hear me
but it's pointless to do that!
All...
All lines converge.
There are few way.
I hope you will forgive me.
La
La
Follow me
Hi La!
Look...
I wanted to tell you that
not everything depends on me.
But...
you're a nice girl and...
I hope we'll meet again.
Bye.
And suddenly I hear voices saying to me:
"Come now, it's happening!
Come with us!"
how to communicate without communicating
I didn't know if it was human or not...
we feel many presences in nature.
I came out of my body...
we see the links...
It was clear, I was
going into the forest...
and actions...
to reach the spirits.
between everything.
Hello?
Hello sir... it's La.
Hello La!
How are you?
Your car is well!
It's Mathilde, I... she is...
You want to speak with her?
Don't move.
Hello La?
Mathilde?
Are you okay?
Out of gas.
Sorry, I had to follow the track.
I did it Lea!
I was not alone, you know,
I've never been alone.
You've never been alone
in your head Mathilde.
Not only.
Did you meet people?
I've met a lot, I can tell you.
Not people.
But I was...
accompanied.
So you became friends with squirrels?
The farther I went...
the less I was alone.
So you managed to come back home?
Hitchhiking.
It's thanks to you, you know that?
There were lights.
Lights everywhere.
All around.