Le Passe-Muraille (2016)

Émile Dutilleul, an inconspicuous insurance clerk, has been taking a medication since childhood without knowing why. When it is no longer sold, he discovers to his amazement that he can walk through walls. At first he keeps it secret, but he soon understands the advantages of this power: he drives his boss to burnout, robs banks, and plunders museums. When his mother dies in a retirement home, he realizes she had the same ability. The police find him dead drunk and discover that he is the man who can walk through walls, but even the RAID can do little against him: he can leave his electronic ankle monitors whenever he likes and escape prisons through the walls. He confides in Ariane and, accepting that they should embrace their love, makes plans with her to work in a circus in Belgium. But after tailing his ex-wife, the police try to poison him when he gives her 15 years’ worth of alimony in cash. Émile escapes once more and, finding one last tube of his medication, swallows it to return to an “extremely normal” life. As he finds it increasingly difficult to evade the police by passing through walls, he remains trapped inside the wall of Ariane’s house. The wall now speaks, until the house is sold and demolished, setting him free...