François Samuelson

Birth : 1952-01-01, Alexandria - Egypt

History

Agent artistique et littéraire, François Samuelson est présent à la fois dans le cinéma, en représentant des réalisateurs (Abderrahmane Sissako, Michael Haneke, Olivier Assayas..), des scénaristes et des acteurs (comme Benoît Magimel ou Jean-Hugues Anglade...), et dans la littérature : il est aussi l’agent de Michel Houellebecq, ou encore d’Olivier Adam. Il réagit à l’extension de ce nouveau contrat d’édition.

Movies

Vincennes, l'université perdue

Self

Recounts the epic of Vincennes Experimental University Center, from its creation after the events of May 68 until its demolition in the summer of 1980. To talk about Vincennes is to relive unique ten years of intense intellectual and political extravaganza, educational and artistic inventiveness, utopias, hopes, and betrayals that marked the history in a unique place, the forest with the eponymous name.

The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq

François

In September 2011 writer Michel Houellebecq briefly disappeared off the face of the earth. Wild rumours began circulating on the Internet that he’d been abducted by Al-Qaeda or aliens from outer space. Some Twitter users even expressed relief that the controversial author was suddenly no longer around. This film now reveals what really happened: Three tough guys variously with impressive hairstyles and bodybuilder physiques carried off the star intellectual, taking him out of the daily stress of dodging autograph hunters and having his flat renovated and bringing him to a beautiful rural underdog idyll, full of dog grooming, bodybuilding demonstrations, junk cars and Polish sausages. But who was to pay the ransom?