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The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq is a french film of genre Drama directed by Guillaume Nicloux with Michel Houellebecq

The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq (2014)

The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq
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Length 1h32
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OriginFrance
Genres Drama,    Comedy
Rating66% 3.346213.346213.346213.346213.34621

The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq (French: L'enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq) is a 2014 French comedy-drama film directed by Guillaume Nicloux, starring Michel Houellebecq, Mathieu Nicourt, Maxime Lefrançois and Luc Schwarz. It tells the story of how the famous author Michel Houellebecq is kidnapped and held for ransom by three men during a promotional tour in 2011.

The film was inspired by a rumour which occurred while Houellebecq was promoting his novel The Map and the Territory. For some time, he appeared to give no signs of life, which made newspapers in France speculate that he had been kidnapped. In reality he only had some trouble with his Internet connection. The film premiered at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival where it played in the Forum section.

Synopsis

L'écrivain Michel Houellebecq a une vie calme et sans imprévus, il se promène dans son quartier et discute avec ses amis. Mais un jour trois hommes rentrent avec lui dans son immeuble, le ligotent et l'enlèvent. Perplexe sur les volontés de ses ravisseurs qui semblent eux-mêmes dans l'incertitude de leur entreprise, ils vont tous se retrouver hébergés chez un couple de retraités, dans une semi-captivité bon enfant et familiale où les sensibilités de chacun vont être mises au jour, le tout ponctué par les humeurs moroses et folkloriques du célèbre écrivain.

Actors

Michel Houellebecq

(Michel Houellebecq)
Françoise Lebrun

(Françoise)
Maxime Lefrançois

(Max)
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