Rotten
A fans- and detractors-only affair. At its worst, it feels like a highbrow transgressive-celebrity-cameo skit.
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club
Overview
His mother has left and Gonzalo doesn't know why. How he is taking care of his little infant sister all alone, though he himself is barely ten years old. Neighbours help and try to figure out what should be done with the two children. Like old Felipe with his pub, the veterinarian Julio and his wife, or kind Lorena, who's stranded in the town. And gradually Gonzalo finds out what is really going on.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Fresh
Hilarious, full of humor that is understated, wry and dependent on familiarity with interests as wide as Houellebecq's own.
Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post
Fresh
This is pretty much the opposite of a contemporary American comedy: rather than broad, "The Kidnapping of Michel Houllebecq" is an exemplary example of narrow.
Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com
Fresh
The Houellebecq we see on screen is obviously rooted as much in fiction as in fact, yet what makes his performance so fascinating is the mischievous glee he takes in sending up his own persona.
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice
Fresh
A divertingly eccentric, often comically absurd movie about a novelist ... who finds something like happiness after being abducted.
Manohla Dargis, New York Times
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