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The writer was to appear anonymously in an X film, which he has since tried to ban. For “Le Point”, he explains why.
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DDecember 2022. Novelist Michel Houellebecq and his wife, Qianyum Lysis Li, travel to Amsterdam to take part in what has been presented to them as a porno-artistic performance, a film under the direction of the Dutch director and member of the KIRAC collective (Keeping It Real Art Critics), Stefan Ruitenbeek. It had been agreed that the writer would wear a mask and would not be recognizable. The filming takes place over several days and ends, according to the writer, with a violent argument. At the end of January, a trailer – quite trashy – appeared on social networks: it shows a pregnant woman who vomits in a car before giving birth under the watchful eye of the camera, then the Prix Goncourt appears naked, without a mask, in a hotel bed, cigarette in mouth, with…
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