Michel Houellebecq

Quotidien

Quotidien (nicknamed "The French Show with the Good Lighting" abroad) is a French daily infotainment television...

Vivement dimanche

The Culture Show

A weekly BBC Two magazine programme focusing on the best of the week's arts and culture news, covering books, a...

Delete History

In a provincial suburb, three neighbours come to terms with the consequences of the new world of social media....

A Perfect Man

A struggling writer finds a shortcut to fame, but a blackmailer threatens to ruin his perfect life.

Saint Amour

Every year, Bruno makes a tour of all the wine stands, without setting foot outside the Show’s premises and wit...

Being Blanche Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq travels to Guadeloupe to take part in a look-alike contest, whose jury is chaired by Blanche...

La Traversée du désir

What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle o...

Rumba Therapy

Tony is a macho middle-aged school bus driver in the provinces with no friends or relations. A sudden heart att...

To Stay Alive: A Method

Iggy Pop reads and recites Michel Houellebecq’s manifesto. The documentary features real people from Houellebec...

The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq

In September 2011 writer Michel Houellebecq briefly disappeared off the face of the earth. Wild rumours began c...

The Gordji Affair

Wahid Gordji is an Iranian diplomat suspected of the attack at 'rue de Rennes'. Yet, he is ultimately absolved...

Possibility of an Island

La Possibilité d'une île is a 2008 film directed by Michel Houellebecq, loosely based on his 2005 novel The Pos...

Thalasso

Provocative French writer Michel Houellebecq meets Gérard Depardieu at a sea water therapy centre in Cabourg. T...

Why Are We (Not) Creative?

In this second installment of his exploration of creativity, Hermann Vaske looks for factors that inhibit it. H...

Comme dans un vrai film

Near Death Experience

Paul, a call center employee, is completely burnt out. One Friday 13, a television news report seems to be a si...

Isolement

Jean-Louis Aubert with Michel Houellebecq perform "Isolement" by Houellebecq in a restaurant. Aubert composed t...

The Trouble with Michel

Poet, essayist, novelist and filmmaker, Michel Houellebecq has always had close ties with the cinema and the wo...

Wah² Michel Houellebecq & Bertrand Burgalat

Michel Houellebecq and Bertrand Burgalat perform songs from the album "Présence Humaine" in at the Kantine in C...

Houellebecq: encore un best-seller?

About the new novel « Sérotonine » by Michel Houellebecq with a first edition of 500 000 copies for the French,...

Cristal de souffrance

In an old castle, Johnny de Winter-Smythe gives shelter to a mad painter, whom he martyrizes, helped by a hunch...