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A fans- and detractors-only affair. At its worst, it feels like a highbrow transgressive-celebrity-cameo skit. Mar 26, 2015 | Rating: C | Full Review…
A fans- and detractors-only affair. At its worst, it feels like a highbrow transgressive-celebrity-cameo skit.
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Hilarious, full of humor that is understated, wry and dependent on familiarity with interests as wide as Houellebecq's own. Mar 25, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Hilarious, full of humor that is understated, wry and dependent on familiarity with interests as wide as Houellebecq's own.
Farran Smith Nehme
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. Mar 25, 2015 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
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.
Glenn Kenny
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. Mar 24, 2015 | Full Review…
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.
Melissa Anderson
A divertingly eccentric, often comically absurd movie about a novelist ... who finds something like happiness after being abducted. Mar 24, 2015 | Full Review…
A divertingly eccentric, often comically absurd movie about a novelist ... who finds something like happiness after being abducted.
Manohla Dargis
A playful blurring of fact and fiction. Mar 23, 2015 | Full Review…
A playful blurring of fact and fiction.
Stephen Dalton
... moves between fiction and documentary; between the density of drama and the lightness of comedy... [Full review in Spanish] Dec 12, 2017 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
... moves between fiction and documentary; between the density of drama and the lightness of comedy... [Full review in Spanish]
Hugo Hernández Valdivia
This is a very French film Aug 21, 2017 | Full Review…
This is a very French film
Kathy Fennessy
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. Dec 7, 2015 | Full Review…
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.
Nick Pinkerton
There's something undeniably comic about this combination of the cultivated and the infantile. Jun 5, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
There's something undeniably comic about this combination of the cultivated and the infantile.
Robert Horton
A most curious film. What follows is something like an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm with the volume turned down. Apr 1, 2015 | Full Review…
A most curious film. What follows is something like an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm with the volume turned down.
Sean Burns
Extremely droll comedy about France's (if not the world's) most controversial novelist, who turns in a great job playing himself. Mar 27, 2015 | Full Review…
Extremely droll comedy about France's (if not the world's) most controversial novelist, who turns in a great job playing himself.
Louis Proyect
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