When best-selling and famously reclusive novelist Michel Houllebecq disappeared during his book tour in 2011, the rumors that spread regarding his whereabouts ran the gamut from suicide to, as the title suggests, a kidnapping. Due to ongoing COVID-19 concerns, Film Forum is temporarily closed. • IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES • The film captures “some of his signature tone of sour, absurd, deadpan humor… Soon he is charming his kidnappers, who respect his intellectual reputation even when he barrages them with diva-ish demands for fine wines and the services of a local prostitute…Houellebecq plays himself convincingly – indeed he appears genuinely drunk in some scenes.” With a nod to O. Henry’s short story, FRANCE • 2014 • 92 MINS. See all photos. Due to ongoing COVID-19 concerns, Film Forum is temporarily closed. Michel Houellebecq (born Michel Thomas), born 26 February 1958 (birth certificate) or 1956 on the French island of Réunion, is a controversial and award-winning French novelist. Whatever the real truth may be, what we do know is that director Guillaume Nicloux has created a highly entertaining and farcical piece of cinema that echoes the dry tone and tongue-in-cheek presentation of its unique and ever-unconventional subject.From experimental cinema (Les Enfants volants, La Vie crevée) to film noir triptych (Une affaire privée, Cette femme-là, La Clef), from comedy (Le Poulpe, Holiday) to political film (L’affaire Gordji), and drama (Faut pas rire du bonheur, la Reine des connes), Guillaume Nicloux explores different genres and weaves complex but inseparable links between each of his films.Michel Houellebecq, Maria Bourjala, Luc Schwarz, Mathieu Nicourt, Maxime Lefrançois Known For But was he really? As a wild alternative, Guillaume Nicloux's work of complete fiction starring Houellebecq himself playfully speculates on the reason for the mysterious disappearance. We are not selling tickets at this time, but we are hopeful that we will show all of our upcoming films in the near future. If novelist Michel Houellebecq had indeed been kidnapped during his 2011 promotional book tour, this may have been the definitive documentary on the case.

We are not selling tickets at this time, but we are hopeful that we will show all of our upcoming films in the near future. We are not selling tickets at this time, but we are hopeful that we will show all of our upcoming films in the near future. We are not selling tickets at this time, but we are hopeful that we will show all of our upcoming films in the near future. Due to ongoing COVID-19 concerns, Film Forum is temporarily closed. 17 Favorites . After a flurry of media reports of his abduction, the story goes cold and Houellebecq, famously reclusive, refuses to set the record straight. Due to ongoing COVID-19 concerns, Film Forum is temporarily closed. Contact Info View agent, publicist, legal on IMDbPro STARmeter. Due to ongoing COVID-19 concerns, Film Forum is temporarily closed. View rank on IMDbPro Filmography. Our email newsletter comes to your inbox every week with Film Forum's upcoming films and events.© 2020, Film Forum, Inc. All rights reserved. Partly based on real-life events and starring Houellebecq himself, this fascinating and, despite its ominous-sounding title, wildly funny film blurs the line between fiction and documentary. IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES KINO LORBER Michel Houellebecq, possibly the most widely-read living French writer, was believed kidnapped on September 16, 2011. 1 Review . Now he goes one step further by starring as himself in “an inspired comic thriller” that purports to tell the tale. We are not selling tickets at this time, but we are hopeful that we will show all of our upcoming films in the near future.

We are not selling tickets at this time, but we are hopeful that we will show all of our upcoming films in the near future. We are not selling tickets at this time, but we are hopeful that we will show all of our upcoming films in the near future. So endless was the speculation that we now have a perfectly perplexing film about it. Not to be reprinted without permission.Film Forum is committed to accessibility. MARCH 25 – APRIL 7 2 WEEKS THE KIDNAPPING OF MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY GUILLAUME NICLOUX FRANCE 2014 92 MINS. To admirers he is a writer in the tradition of literary provocation that reaches back to the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire; to detractors he is a peddler, who writes vulgar sleazy literature to shock.