Eight days in a coma and when he woke up he couldn't even stand: The true story of a man who never gave up on his dreams hits theaters Friday

this Friday It will be coming to the big screen My inner pathA French film inspired by the true story of a man, despite the consequences of his fall 10 meters high Who almost ended his life, he did not give up his calling since his youth: to travel around the entire world.

In the movie that will be released is called run outbut in the real world it is Sylvain Tysona French traveler and writer, among other qualities, has Goncourt Prize The novel is one of the most important cultural differences in the French country. On foot, horseback or bicycle, since the age of 19, Sylvain has dedicated himself to traveling the world – in fact he has circled the globe. In just 22 years-, but everything was cut off by A Tragic accident Which could cost him death.

“I should have fallen about twenty years ago. There's kind of a Satan That grew inside me.” These words were collected in an interview given to Le Monde In 2015, the year after his fall, which also coincided with the publication of one of his travel stories. Because of August 20, 2014Sylvain Tesson, who has always had a habit and hobby of climbing buildings and walking on roofs, He fell from the chalet In the municipality of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc. With the body in pieces and with fractures in Paragraphs And the Skull fractureswas in an induced coma for eight days and confessed In the hospital for three months.

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Tyson has always been a great lover of High spaces. Every year, for example, he displays the Tibetan flag in a symbolic place in Paris, such as the time in 2008 when it was mounted on top of the facade of the mosque. Notre Dame CathedralWhich he also did in other buildings e.g Eiffel tower. “I've always loved living by a thread. Until the day… It ended badly“.

After waking up from a coma, He could barely standso he had to begin a long recovery process so that he could return to what was his passion, of course, with some indelible traces of the accident, such as Facial paralysis And one Deafness From the right ear. “These were three months of rest, sobriety, silence and psychoanalysis useful. “My life has been a satanic and somewhat suicidal carnival,” he said in the same interview. Le Monde. Despite everything, and this is the stage that the film goes through, the famous writer decided to embark on a journey Traveling across France on footFrom Provence to Mont Saint Michel.

thus, My inner path It comes to Spanish cinemas only with the aim of informing us An hour and a half longWhat happened to this man when he decided to face the obstacles imposed by his downfall? Directed by Dennis Imbert (Secret Visi) The film features the actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist, The Wolf of Wall Street) in the lead role and is based on the novel Sur les Chamins Noirspublished in 2019.

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