Michel Houellebecq (pronounced [wɛlˈbɛk]), his real name is Michel Thomas, born February 26, 1956, or 19581 at The Meeting (France), is a writer, poet, essayist and novelist French. It is, since the late 1990s, one of the contemporary writers in the French language the most translated in the world. In parallel to his literary activities, he is also a singer, director etacteur, as can be seen in particular in 2014 in two films :The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, and Near Death experiences. It is revealed by the novels Extension of the domain of the struggle and, especially, The elementary Particles, who made known to a wide public. This latest novel, and his next book Platform, are considered pioneers in the French literature, in particular for their description of the emotional misery and sexual of the western man in the years 1990 and 2000. With the Map and The Territory, Michel Houellebecq was awarded the prix Goncourt in 2010, after having been repeatedly tipped for this award.
Michel Houellebecq travels to Guadeloupe to take part in a look-alike contest, whose jury is chaired by Blanche Gardin. But unforeseen events will plunge our duo into the heart of a bizarre intrigue. ...
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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. Tony's convinced he's going to die. When his cardiologist warns him : We all need others. Alone, we're nothing. T ...
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Provocative French writer Michel Houellebecq meets Gérard Depardieu at a sea water therapy centre in Cabourg. Together, they try to survive the health regime to which they are subjected by the establishment. But events quickly derail their routine… Just ...
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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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Iggy Pop reads and recites Michel Houellebecq's manifesto. The documentary features real people from Houellebecq's life with the text based on their life stories. ...
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A struggling writer finds a shortcut to fame, but a blackmailer threatens to ruin his perfect life. ...
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In September 2011 writer Michel Houellebecq briefly disappeared off the face of the earth. Wild rumours began circulating on the Internet that he'd been abducted by Al-Qaeda or aliens from outer space. Some Twitter users even expressed relief that the cont ...
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Jean-Louis Aubert with Michel Houellebecq perform "Isolement" by Houellebecq in a restaurant. Aubert composed the music to Houellebecq's poetry for the album "Aubert chante Houellebecq : Les Parages du Vide", published in the spring of 2014. ...
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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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Poet, essayist, novelist and filmmaker, Michel Houellebecq has always had close ties with the cinema and the world of the visual arts, which have accompanied and extended his reflexions since the start of his career, as the frequent allusions to them in hi ...
Watch NowMichel Houellebecq and Bertrand Burgalat perform songs from the album "Présence Humaine" in at the Kantine in Cologne, Germany, ...
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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, drawn to the castle by the spectral apparition of a woman... ...
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2009. Michel Djerzinski, a genius researcher specialized in molecular biology, mysteriously disappears in Ireland. His latest discoveries would have opened the way to a major upheaval in the history of human genetics. This is the occasion for a dizzying pl ...
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François is a literary scholar and drinker. His relationships with women are limited to one year, his life is sufficiently happy. Until the day when charismatic Muslim politician Mohamed Ben Abbes becomes president in France, introduces patriarchy and pol ...
Watch NowIggy Pop reads and recites Michel Houellebecq's manifesto. The documentary features real people from Houellebecq's life with the text based on their life stories. ...
Watch NowJean-Louis Aubert with Michel Houellebecq perform "Isolement" by Houellebecq in a restaurant. Aubert composed the music to Houellebecq's poetry for the album "Aubert chante Houellebecq : Les Parages du Vide", published in the spring of 2014. ...
Watch NowLa 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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Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-brothers and their disturbed sexuality. After a chaotic childhood with a hippie mother only caring for her aff ...
Watch NowA quasi-sequel to Michel Houellebecq's novel The Possibility of an Island, Masbedo's short presents a post-apocalyptic landscape overseen by a distant mother nature or perhaps mother of nature portrayed by French icon Juliette Binoche. ...
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Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall - London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. T ...
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