Being Blanche Houellebecq

Being Blanche Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq travels to Guadeloupe to take part in a look-alike contest, whose jury is chaired by Blanche Gardin. But unforeseen events will...

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Rumba Therapy

Rumba Therapy

Tony is a macho middle-aged school bus driver in the provinces with no friends or relations. A sudden heart attack throws him into a tailspin...

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A Perfect Man

A Perfect Man

A struggling writer finds a shortcut to fame, but a blackmailer threatens to ruin his perfect life.

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Saint Amour

Saint Amour

Every year, Bruno makes a tour of all the wine stands, without setting foot outside the Show’s premises and without ever finishing his wine trail...

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Delete History

Delete History

In a provincial suburb, three neighbours come to terms with the consequences of the new world of social media. Marie, who lives off her husband’s...

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Thalasso

Thalasso

Provocative French writer Michel Houellebecq meets Gérard Depardieu at a sea water therapy centre in Cabourg. Together, they try to survive the...

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The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq

The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq

In September 2011 writer Michel Houellebecq briefly disappeared off the face of the earth. Wild rumours began circulating on the Internet that he’d...

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The Gordji Affair

The Gordji Affair

Wahid Gordji is an Iranian diplomat suspected of the attack at 'rue de Rennes'. Yet, he is ultimately absolved when French hostages in Lebanon are...

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Possibility of an Island

Possibility of an Island

La Possibilité d'une île is a 2008 film directed by Michel Houellebecq, loosely based on his 2005 novel The Possibility of an Island.

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La Traversée du désir

La Traversée du désir

What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.

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Near Death Experience

Near Death Experience

Paul, a call center employee, is completely burnt out. One Friday 13, a television news report seems to be a signal that he must take action...

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To Stay Alive: A Method

To Stay Alive: A Method

Iggy Pop reads and recites Michel Houellebecq’s manifesto. The documentary features real people from Houellebecq’s life with the text based on...

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Why Are We (Not) Creative?

Why Are We (Not) Creative?

In this second installment of his exploration of creativity, Hermann Vaske looks for factors that inhibit it. He asks artists, activists, and...

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Comme dans un vrai film

Comme dans un vrai film

The Trouble with Michel

The Trouble with Michel

Poet, essayist, novelist and filmmaker, Michel Houellebecq has always had close ties with the cinema and the world of the visual arts, which have...

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Houellebecq: encore un best-seller?

Houellebecq: encore un best-seller?

About the new novel « Sérotonine » by Michel Houellebecq with a first edition of 500 000 copies for the French, German, Italian and Spanish market.

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Wah² Michel Houellebecq & Bertrand Burgalat

Wah² Michel Houellebecq & Bertrand Burgalat

Michel Houellebecq and Bertrand Burgalat perform songs from the album "Présence Humaine" in at the Kantine in Cologne, Germany,

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Isolement

Isolement

Jean-Louis Aubert with Michel Houellebecq perform "Isolement" by Houellebecq in a restaurant. Aubert composed the music to Houellebecq's poetry for...

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Cristal de souffrance

Cristal de souffrance

In an old castle, Johnny de Winter-Smythe gives shelter to a mad painter, whom he martyrizes, helped by a hunchback butler. A traveler then arrives...

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