Would a screenwriter have dared to offer producers such depressing characters? Michel, a scientist lost in infinite solitude, reflects on the future of humanity in front of a tray of cold lasagna. Bruno tries to erase the memory of touching suffered as a child by wallowing in debauchery. In the mind of Michel Houellebecq, they were born from the same absent mother and sixty-eight. Fifteen years after Oskar Roehler's film, France 2 has adapted
Les Particules elementaires,
the author's second novel
,
into two episodes
, published in 1998 and edited by the late Raphaël Sorin.
We were allowed to attend the reunion of the half-brothers, played by Jean-Charles Clichet and Guillaume Gouix.
This is one of the highlights of the work.
Twenty floors above the slab of the Olympiades, Paris 13th, around forty people rustle in a decayed apartment, houellebecquien in devil with its dead plants and this close-up photo of chromosomes.
"For
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