The French writer Michel Houellebecq, while promoting the film about his alleged kidnapping. / Uly Martin
When the reporter asks the question, Michel Houellebecq (Saint-Pierre, Reunion Island, 1958) takes time. Five seconds. Ten. A hesitation. Patience, the writer has a reputation for surly, until the absentee sick. They spend another 20, and the silence of the hotel’s central courtyard becomes deafening. Within 40 seconds the writer returned from that distant mental space in which seems to store responses. The press team film The kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq , fantasizing about his disappearance in 2011 in which he plays himself, breathing relief. Also the journalist. No matter what you answer. Sounds like heaven
In any case, the frightened journalists agree that the writer seems to be in good spirits. His lanky frame, his white skin to transparency, the body that seems to have suffered more than their age would inspire even tenderness. This gentler side corresponds to that shown in what has brought him to his beloved Spain, the premiere on August 29, the film, produced by the Arte and premiered at the Berlinale, a sort of mockumentary about an episode best known for its turbulent history media
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I recognize more in the film than in my novels
“The first literary star from Sartre” (as he defined the Le Nouvel Observateur) had just won the Goncourt prize, the gold medal of the French novel, The map and the territory . His agents were waiting for him to begin a tour of the Netherlands, but the writer did not attend the appointment or answering emails or calls. Alarm, panic. Had he fallen in psychotic depression he suffered in the eighties? Had he gone the globe, as he did in his book the character named Houellebecq? Would have kidnapped Al Qaeda in response to their offenses to Islam, as was rumored in web? Deception: the writer appeared on the third day. Just the phone line from her home in Almería did not work. Or so claimed
What keeps saying, though the film Nicloux of another idea. What if the hypothesis of kidnapping was true? To do this, place the real writer in the midst of a fictional situation. “All that Al Qaeda was very fun and I eventually served as an alibi to show fictional Michel moments that the media has not exposed. It is people that make me laugh, and it seemed a shame that the viewer could not access that part of your personality, “says the director, who had worked with the writer in his TV movie L ‘affaire Gordji (2012). The writer seems to have acquired a taste for acting. In brief film premieres Near death experience (directed by Benoît and Gustave Kervern Délépine), in which trailer you can see dancing rock
Trailer The kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq .
Enesta autobiographical farce is presented as a born comic, at least when he is true to his character, trying to pedophiles their writers congeners, riding on anger over a literary discrepancy (“I have a very weak aesthetic tolerance. innocence is lacking in not love The Lord of the Rings that bothers me! “) or drinking more wine account. “I recognize in the movie in my novels. In my book I’m not so much as an exploration of potentialities that are in me but have not been. For example, if he had been an alcoholic for real, something that has not happened, but it could, “mumbles the writer in his very low voice while the director, at his side, chuckling.
least Houellebecq real life smokes like Michel film, placing the cigarette in the first joint between the middle and ring fingers, a very short puffs from the corner of his mouth. Some alien ways that correspond to their atypical dress: summer uniform (the winter parka is a usually green) consists of a tank top and vest the same cut like that of a photojournalist. In the film, Michel says that endlessly repeated gesture because a finger playing basketball broke. . Truth or lie, impossible to know
Director ensures that everything in the film has emerged from improvisation
There, in that gray area between fact and fiction, is where the power of the work. And they know it. The dozen journalists waiting for their turn in the huddle calm to chaos do question the veracity of what is shown. A that you have ensured that everything is true, says that while reading that the writer puts distance between him and his paper. When the director about how much improvisation is interrogated and how much work there is in the script, interrupted: “Wait, before we give you a question. Do you like it? Because we have different discourses as responsive. ” Later will ensure that The kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq “is not a movie,” only one take per scene was made, each situation unfolded in real time and all have been “recorded as it is they lived. ” But then, who knows.
speak, for example, an episode in which, after much insistence, Houellebecq just driving the car that her kidnapper returns to society. The writer accelerates to 300 per hour (“Running is one of my vices”) to the astonishment of his companion. Ensures that the author Nicloux he wrote his will before the scene, causing panic to the other actor, also amateur, with the possibility of an “organized suicide” of the star. Another time, more emotional, whose truth claims the author. “I know it when I say in the film that my life has been well and can stop now … Kant’s words are indeed my latest favorite words. ‘ C’est suffisant . It is enough, “says Castilian, smiling. His confession creates a moment of meditation, like he was before the final revelation, drop the mask. Although beware: as before Nicloux warned, “it is easier to tell the truth using lie”
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