On the Wandering Paths

On the Wandering Paths (Sur les chemins noirs, 2023) is a French drama you can watch online on iFILM. Director Denis Imbert follows Pierre — adventurer, writer, a man who climbed a hotel façade drunk and fell into a months-long coma. Once he recovers, he ignores every doctor in the room and sets out to cross France on foot. Jean Dujardin plays him with the kind of stubborn quiet that says more than any speech.

Pierre takes the old forgotten paths, the ones that have dropped off every modern map. No shortcuts, no support crew — just a body that nearly didn't make it and a will that refused to hear it. What reads like a physical challenge is really something slower: a long reckoning with what it means to be alive after nearly not being. Stream On the Wandering Paths (2023) on iFILM.