Michel Houellebecq, headliner of a Dutch "semi-pornographic" film

Céline Géraud 10:57 a.m., January 31, 2023

It's a totally unexpected role for the famous French novelist.

Michel Houellebecq is the main actor in a "semi-pornographic" short film produced by the collective of Dutch filmmakers Kirac.

It all started last December during the Christmas holidays.

Dutch director Stefan Ruitenbeek exchanges by email with Michel Houellebecq who tells him that he had to cancel his honeymoon in Morocco for fear of being kidnapped by Muslim extremists.

The novelist was impatiently awaiting this escapade.

For this occasion, his wife had organized a tour with prostitutes.

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First screening in March in Amsterdam

The director then offers him to reproduce the concept of this honeymoon but in Amsterdam, and on the condition that he can film everything.

The trailer for the short film reveals some sequences, the viewer can see the Goncourt prize half-naked passionately kissing a young woman in scantily clad in a hotel room.  

The filmmaker is part of a collective of artists, renamed Kirac, which defines itself as "rebellious, perverse, funny and wildly independent".

Stefan Ruitenbeek maintains the mystery and describes this film of less than 20 minutes as "semi-pornographic" with an artistic mission: to fill the ideological void which separates a famous writer from a young prostitute.

Kirac had already proposed the same scenario to the right-wing conservative philosopher Sid Lukkassen who then tried to oppose the broadcast, without success.

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The first screening is scheduled for March 11 in a theater in Amsterdam.

In the meantime, Michel Houllebecq has made no comment on this disruptive performance, to say the least!