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Michel Houellebecq may have just suffered the most hurtful jibe of all: he has been called boring. His cinematic debut has been given a thumbs-down.
Michel Houellebecq’s debut film was panned after its first screening this week. The French enfant terrible talks to Geoffrey Macnab.
He is French literature’s ageing enfant terrible, a nihilistic provocateur who has never been afraid of a blazing row — whether it is appearing in court for inciting racial hatred, irking feminists, or raging against the publishing world. But Michel Houellebecq could be about to face his most bruising public spat: with his mother.