Who would have imagined Michel Houellebecq, the star of French literature give a reply to Gérard Depardieu, the most famous actor of the Hexagon? Guillaume Nicloux. The director who has worked with them, separately, together in a comedy, Spa , which will be released on August 21. The two friends play the guests that came to recuperate at Cabourg. A first preview has just been unveiled.

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“there is no risk that my nails stand out?”, request, sheepish, Michel Houellebecq in his cryothérapeute. The “all”, reassures the professional. It was without counting on Gege: “It is incredibly dangerous, particularly that you’re not thick, you” toss him there. Houellebecq, in his own role, writer, depressed, does not seem reassured. The plot of this comedy is very close to The kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq , telefilm hilarious Guillaume Nicloux, in which the winner of the Goncourt 2010 imagined her kidnapping. It is even a sequel, while also slapstick, it seems. According to the synopsis, it would be this time of an attempt of survival common to both men the face of the regime drastic imposed on them by the healthcare facility. Providing, Gérard Depardieu would have brought with him a suitcase full of sausages.

In January last of the pictures taken on the shoot of Spa showed the two actors in a bathrobe, smoking and drinking red wine. For the soundtrack, Guillaume Nicloux has appealed to Julien Doré, who hastened to relay this teaser on social networks.

Guillaume Nicloux directed Gérard Depardieu, a hunter lost in The End in 2016 in Valley of Love in 2015, where the actor gives the answer to Isabelle Huppert. Or, more recently, in The Edge of the world , a film about the trauma and mourning after the Indochina war. There, in the clammy asian, Depardieu was sweating a lot…