The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq (DVD)

Directed by Guillaume Nicloux

Release Year: 2014

Running Time: 96

UPC: 7 38329 18112 3

Color Type: Color

Country: France

Language: French with English subtitles

Genres: Based on True Story

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Michel Houellebecq Michel Houellebecq

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Directed by Guillaume Nicloux (Guillaume Nicloux)

Michel Houellebecq, possibly the most widely read living French writer, was believed kidnapped on September 16, 2011. But was he really? After a flurry of media reports of his abduction, the story goes cold and Houellebecq, famously reclusive, refuses to set the record straight. Now he goes one step further by starring as himself in a film that purports to tell the tale.

With a nod to O. Henry's short story, The Ransom of Red Chief, the film explores the dramatic territory where the personae of criminal and victim are remade in unexpected and surprisingly amusing ways. -Karen Cooper, Director, Film Forum

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