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The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq
Directed by
Guillaume Nicloux
Not Rated
2014
1h 32m
Comedy
,
Drama
6.7
88%
65%
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The author Michel Houellebecq is abducted by three amateur kidnappers.
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Cast of The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq
Mathieu Nicourt
Mathieu
Maxime Lefrançois
Max
Françoise Lebrun
Françoise
Luc Schwarz
Luc
Veran Mauberret
Ginette Suchotzky
Ginette
André Suchotzky
Dede
Marie Bourjala
Fatima
Karim Achoui
L'avocat
François Samuelson
François
Vincent Janerot
Béatrice Mendy
Marie Schwarz
Ian Turiak
L'ouvrier polonais
Patrick Chadaillat
Guillaume Nicloux
Director / Writer
Sylvie Pialat
Producer
The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq Ratings & Reviews
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Kathy Fennessy
This is a very French film
Reverse Shot
Nick Pinkerton
The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq is on one hand a rather ingenious take on the artist documentary, on the other, a tabletop comedy of manners, closer to something by Gianni Di Gregorio or Hong Sang-soo than to Houellebecq's own work.
HeraldNet (Everett, WA)
Robert Horton
There's something undeniably comic about this combination of the cultivated and the infantile.
Movie Mezzanine
Sean Burns
A most curious film. What follows is something like an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm with the volume turned down.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Louis Proyect
Extremely droll comedy about France's (if not the world's) most controversial novelist, who turns in a great job playing himself.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
A fans- and detractors-only affair. At its worst, it feels like a highbrow transgressive-celebrity-cameo skit.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
Hilarious, full of humor that is understated, wry and dependent on familiarity with interests as wide as Houellebecq's own.
The Dissolve
Noel Murray
At first, the movie is offbeat enough to be entertaining anyway; but like the title character, it quickly outstays its welcome.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
This is pretty much the opposite of a contemporary American comedy: rather than broad, "The Kidnapping of Michel Houllebecq" is an exemplary example of narrow.
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
The Houellebecq we see on screen is obviously rooted as much in fiction as in fact, yet what makes his performance so fascinating is the mischievous glee he takes in sending up his own persona.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
A divertingly eccentric, often comically absurd movie about a novelist ... who finds something like happiness after being abducted.
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Dalton
A playful blurring of fact and fiction.
Variety
Scott Foundas
A slight, slyly amusing farce that could be described as a French intellectual's equivalent of Michael Winterbottom's Trip movies, by way of Michael Bay's Pain & Gain.
Slant Magazine
Oleg Ivanov
Even though the film takes on a more overtly fictive aesthetic after he's kidnapped, Michel Houellebecq's understated presence lends the proceedings a factual quality throughout.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
A self-portrait in marginalia as well as a purposeful goof on the vigorous, menacing, mucky stuff of life outside the pristine precincts of art.
Film Comment Magazine
Nicolas Rapold
Guillaume Nicloux's hostage comedy features a prime slice of stunt casting that works like a charm
Film-Forward.com
Kent Turner
Droll, deadpan, and, ultimately, disarming, The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq has a singular charm, even if you have never heard of the titular, real-life author.
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