{"id":15077,"date":"2023-02-15T22:26:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T22:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squeelio.com\/?p=15077"},"modified":"2023-02-16T18:59:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T18:59:41","slug":"15077","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novelesque.ai\/index.php\/2023\/02\/15\/15077\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirac 27"},"content":{"rendered":"

The French have a fondness for sticking it to the bourgeoisie \u2013 \u00e9pater les bourgeois<\/em> they call it. They might not have the popular cultural powerhouses of Hollywood but from art, literature. architecture and cinema, each successive generation has had an intellectual or group of individuals who shaped cultural evolution by challenging convention, even or especially when society finds it offensive.<\/p>\n

Voltaire, Van Gogh (a dutchman), Marcel Duchamp of the Dada movement, Jean-Paul Sartre the existentialist philosopher. Jean-Luc Godard in films, to name a few. One of their foremost shock artists has recently been hoisted on his own petard.<\/p>\n

The bad boy writer Michel Houellebecq is seeking to impose a ban on the imminent release of a sexually explicit film \u00a0staring none other than himself.\u00a0The movie, “Kirac 27” is by Dutch arthouse filmmaker Stefan Ruitenbeek. Houellebecq is the protagonist and he seems to less offended by what he himself does but more by what is said about him.<\/p>\n

The trailer of the movie shows a shirtless Houellebecq kissing a young woman in bed. All harmless stuff. A bit of slap and tickle. Carry on Writing. The Confessions of a French Intellectual.<\/p>\n

The offence taken was the off-camera commentary by Ruitenbeek saying that Houellebecq had written to him complaining that his honeymoon in Morocco had been called off after his wife had “spent a month booking prostitutes” for her depressed husband.<\/p>\n

Not your average honeymoon.<\/p>\n

It was not the scenes of Houellebecq having intimate relationships with several women that got the writer so hot and bothered that he reached out for his lawyers. Their lawyers Angelique Beres and Maia Kantor said in a statement that the film\u00a0 made \u2018serious and false statements about the couple which violently attacked their dignity.\u2019<\/p>\n

Director Ruitenbeek spoke to \u00a0the Vice news site that the idea to shoot a hard-core \u00a0movie was all \u00a0the idea of Houellebecq \u00a0and his wife inspired by “Honeypot”, a previous film by the “Kirac” collective, about a real life right wing commentator having sex with a left wing liberal for the experience. Sleeping with the enemy, kind of.<\/p>\n

According to the article in Vice, \u00a0Lysis Houellebecq told Ruitenbeek that if he wanted to do something for her husband “you’ll have to turn him into a porn star”.<\/p>\n

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Michel Houellebecq having a harem of Dutch art hoes is gonna haunt me for a while pic.twitter.com\/AcdJCNmOgt<\/a><\/p>\n

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