To Stay Alive: A Method

To Stay Alive: A Method (2016)

Iggy Pop reads and recites Michel Houellebecq’s manifesto. The documentary features real people from Houellebecq’s life with the text based on their life stories.

Erscheinungsdatum
2016-11-19
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (13)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 10 Min.
Genres
Dokumentarfilm, Musik
Regie
Erik Lieshout, Arno Hagers, Reinier van Brummelen

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

  • Budget: 308.000 €
  • Basiert auf: Staying alive – method

To Stay Alive: A Method is a 2016 Dutch documentary film directed by Erik Lieshout, Arno Hagers and Reinier van Brummelen. It is based on Michel Houellebecq's 1991 essay "To Stay Alive", about struggling artists, the role of the poet, and mental health problems. It features marginal artists as well as Houellebecq and the rock singer Iggy Pop, who reads from the original essay.

Production

The director Erik Lieshout had first met Houellebecq when he interviewed him for Dutch television during the promotion of the novel The Possibility of an Island, and ended up directing Last Words, a behind-the-scenes documentary for Houellebecq's own film adaptation of the novel.

To Stay Alive: A Method was produced by Serious Film with co-production support from AT-prod and VPRO. It was completed in April 2016.

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