{"id":263916,"date":"2008-08-13T13:28:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T13:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/08\/13\/houellebecq-should-stick-to-books\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:29:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:29:56","slug":"houellebecq-should-stick-to-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/08\/13\/houellebecq-should-stick-to-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Houellebecq Should Stick to Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/houellebecqs-first-venture-into-movies-ends-in-farce-891515.html\"><i>Independent:<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Several film critics walked out of a showing of the first full-length film written and directed by Houellebecq at the 61st Locarno movie festival. Others giggled or made rude remarks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Houellebecq, perhaps sensing a hostile audience or perhaps just unpredictable as usual, failed to turn up for a press conference. He also failed to say a few words to introduce his movie as festival etiquette demands.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>His film &#8220;La Possibilit\u00e9 d&#8217;une \u00eele&#8221; (The Possibility of an Island) was dubbed by the Swiss newspaper Le Temps as &#8220;the possibility of a shipwreck&#8221;. The French newspaper Le Figaro said that the advance showing of the much-awaited movie, which opens in France in September, had &#8220;turned into a farce&#8221;. [. . .]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Most of the movie appears to have been filmed in a quarry (actually on location in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands). The costumes, characters and gadgets resemble those from a science fiction B movie from the 1950s or an early black and white episode of Doctor Who. The desultory action takes place against a sound-track mostly taken from Ravel&#8217;s &#8220;Bolero&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Independent: Several film critics walked out of a showing of the first full-length film written and directed by Houellebecq at the 61st Locarno movie festival. Others giggled or made rude remarks. Houellebecq, perhaps sensing a hostile audience or perhaps just unpredictable as usual, failed to turn up for a press conference. He also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,14016],"class_list":["post-263916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-houellebecq"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357226,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263916\/revisions\/357226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}