Writer Michel Houellebecq and his wife want the film banned Kirac 27qualified as porn and featuring the writer.
The lawyers of Michel Houellebecq and his wife announced on Tuesday that they had been responsible for taking “all amicable and contentious steps, both civil and criminal”, to obtain the banning of the film “Kirac 27”, qualified as porn and featuring the writer, and a trailer that they consider defamatory.
The trailer for this film, which is to be released on March 11, directed by a Dutch collective, Kirac, was released at the end of January. In particular, we see the writer, shirtless, kissing a young woman in bed.
In voice-over, the director, Stefan Ruitenbeek, also tells that Mr. Houellebecq had written to him that his honeymoon in Morocco had been canceled, while his wife had, according to him, “spent a month to arrange prostitutes at the ‘advance”.
“Serious and misleading statements”
The couple “discovered with dismay and disgust” that the trailer for “Kirac 27” contained “statements implicating them, serious and false, violently undermining their dignity”, write Mes Angélique Bérès and Maïa Kantor, who defend the spouses, in a press release.
He therefore instructed his advisers to “immediately put an end to these attacks by all means” by having “this trailer removed from platforms and social networks throughout the world”, and by prohibiting the director and the collective “from any exploitation, commercial or otherwise. commercial, in any form whatsoever, of the film (…) and other images that they may have of the Houellebecq spouses”.
According to Me Bérès, contacted by AFP, “pre-litigation procedures have already been initiated with the director and the platforms” to obtain the banning of the film, in particular if it contains the voice-over comments of the trailer. .
In a letter sent to the director, of which AFP was aware, Michel Houellebecq evokes “the explosion of violence” of the trailer, “which irreparably damages (his) private life, (his) honor but above all , which is even more serious, to (his) wife, devastated by the lies “broadcast on her.
