Les deux mondes (English: Two Worlds), a 2007 French film, has a plot that mixes elements of comedy, fantasy, romance and drama. Rémy Bassano (Benoit Poelvoorde), a man under the stress of a pending divorce, suddenly finds himself slipping back and forth between his own world, where his life lies in ruins, and an alternate dimension, where a primitive tribe enslaved by a warlord calls upon him to lead their men in a revolt.
The film is similar to my novel "Slaughterhouse Frome," where a man under the stress of his wife's pregnancy suddenly finds himself slipping back and forth between his own time and a far-flung future in outer space. The man ends up in a similar situation as Remy when he is thrust into battle with an intergalactic overlord.
In both stories, the man finds strength in himself in the alternate universe and he is able to use that strength to address the problems he has in his regular life.
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