Kyrre Lien, VG, 2023 April 2<\/p>\n
Original in Norwegian<\/a><\/p>\n Wanted to stop his own porn film – lost<\/em><\/p>\n WARSZAWA (VG) This week, controversial author Michel Houellebecq lost a court case in which he tried to have a porn film he participated in stopped. VG has spoken to the female co-actor.<\/p>\n – “For me, sex is a way of exploring different themes, not just the act itself, but rather the desires people have,” Jini Jane, the 23-year-old philosophy student and porn actress, told VG via text message.<\/p>\n She and Houellebecq met in December in Paris to shoot the film.<\/p>\n The French author has been hailed as one of the country’s greatest living writers and millions of his books have been sold worldwide.<\/p>\n But he is also highly controversial.<\/p>\n Both for the way Islam is referred to in his books, his far-right ideas and the misogynistic nature of his books.<\/p>\n But the author continues to sell huge amounts of books, also in Norway.<\/p>\n That’s why it caused such a stir when it became known that the 67-year-old man had made a pornographic film.<\/p>\n In a trailer for the film, the star author lies topless in bed while kissing the 23-year-old actress, who goes by the stage name Jini Jane. VG knows her real identity.<\/p>\n But he has since regretted it.<\/p>\n The author has fought in court and has tried to have the film stopped. On Tuesday this week, he lost.<\/p>\n The author claimed in court that the film damaged his reputation and that he had signed an unfair contract.<\/p>\n “It is incomprehensible why Houellebecq participated in the filming if he found the agreement truly problematic,” the judge said in the ruling.<\/p>\n Houellebecq was also ordered to pay \u20ac1,393 in legal costs.<\/p>\n The involuntary porn actor and author, through his Dutch lawyer, Jacqueline Schaap, said the judgement was “very disappointing” and that he is considering an appeal.<\/p>\n Also in February, the author lost a similar trial in France.<\/p>\n – I was tired Houellebecq’s wife, Lysis, met with the director and had told the director that her husband “wanted to make a porn film to counteract his dark mind”, according to court documents.<\/p>\n Via email, Houellebecq and the director Stefan Ruitenbeek then discussed plans to make “a work of art, in which the distinction between fiction and reality takes shape as a game of the horrific paranoia of their enemies”.<\/p>\n The AFP news agency has seen the documents, which reveal that Mr Houellebecq fell out with the director after the filming.<\/p>\n The author also claims that he was drunk when the contract was signed.<\/p>\n “I was tired, the day had been long and the necessary wine had already been drunk,” the writer says in the court documents.<\/p>\n “I have no ambition to become a porn star at my age”.<\/p>\n When the trailer for the film was released, relations between the writer and director soured further.<\/p>\n The Dutch woman who stars in the film told VG that she was fascinated by the Houellebecq couple and that he is the only living writer she admires.<\/p>\n – “I was driven by my curiosity to have sex with them,” she says.<\/p>\n Now she feels disappointed by the author’s reaction to the film and feels used.<\/p>\n – “I admire his books as much as I used to, but his lack of interest in other people in real life kind of mirrors the same lack of interest in his books. It annoys me.<\/p>\n The film is part of a series by director Ruitenbeek, in what is the Kirac artists’ collective, a rebellious and experimental artists’ collective that is also responsible for a number of controversial films, often featuring sexual scenes.<\/p>\n Their films often play between fiction and reality.<\/p>\n But the porn film is at least becoming a reality, and will be released in May.<\/p>\n “It has always been my intention to make a work of art with integrity,” director Ruitenbeek said in a statement. “Hopefully Michel is happy with the result”.<\/p>\n – Houllebecq is a troublemaker in European literature, or the author who sits in a corner of the party and throws out unpopular and controversial statements that create a bad atmosphere, says author and literary critic Hilde \u00d8stby.<\/p>\n And follows up:<\/p>\n – “He also has beautiful and existential literature that goes straight into people’s loneliness and longing for love, the impossibility of reaching each other in a cynical world. So he’s a writer I admire and am fascinated by.<\/p>\n However, she was not surprised to see that the author has made a porn film<\/p>\n – “His writing depicts the longing of older men for younger beautiful women in a rather semi-misogynistic way, the porn film is just an extension of that, I think. I was not disappointed by him, because I honestly had no expectations of him in this respect.<\/p>\n Houellebecq has several times been a favourite to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.<\/p>\n – I think the odds are stacked against him after this,” \u00d8stby points out.<\/p>\n VG has contacted the publisher of Houellebecq’s books without receiving a reply. The French author is widely recognised as someone who never gives interviews.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ville stanse sin egen pornofilm \u2013 tapte Kyrre Lien, VG, 2023 April 2 Original in Norwegian Translation to English Wanted to stop his own porn film – lost WARSZAWA (VG) This week, controversial author Michel Houellebecq lost a court case in which he tried to have a porn film he participated in stopped. 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\nIt all started in December last year.<\/p>\n