The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq

September 16th 2011. The TV news networks, newspapers, blogs, websites and radio stations are all reporting on one story: star author Michel Houellebecq, winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2010, has been abducted. Some members of the media go so far as to suggest that Al-Qaeda may be involved. For the next few days, the news ripples through literary circles and members of the press, feeding buzz and speculation. A brazen kidnapping? An identity crisis? A plan to escape abroad? A schizophrenic delirium? Michel will never provide the media with any rational explanation for what happened to him.
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Script: Guillaume Nicloux
Cinematography: Christophe Offenstein
Editing: Guy Lecorne
Sound: Olivier Do-Huu, Fanny Weinzaepflen
Actors: Michel Houellebecq, Maria Bourjala, Luc Schwarz, Mathieu Nicourt, Maxime Lefrancois
Production: Les Films du Worso T. +33 1 4544 0770info@lesfilmsduworso.com www.lesfilmsduworso.com
Producers: Sylvie Pialat
Co-production: Chic Films & Arte, France
Art Direction: Olivier Radot
Costumes: Anais Romand
Format: DCP Color
Production Country: France
Production Year: 2013
Duration: 92
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Guillaume Nicloux

Guillaume Nicloux (born 3 August 1966) is a French novelist, director and actor. He is the founder of the theatre company La Troupe. He has written crime fiction and directed films for cinema and French television. He won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival for The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, a comedic interpretation of a rumored abduction of the writer Michel Houellebecq, starring Houellebecq as himself. His 2015 film Valley of Love was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

Filmography

(selected)
1994 Happiness Is No Joke
2002 A Private Affair
2006 The Stone Council
2007 The Key
2013 The Nun
2014 Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq
2018 To the Ends of the World
2022 Lockdown Tower
2024 Being Blanche Houellebecq