Thalasso is a 2019 French comedy film directed by Guillaume Nicloux, starring the writer Michel Houellebecq and the actor Gérard Depardieu as versions of themselves.

Although Thalasso has been described as a sequel to The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, Nicloux says it was not conceived as such and is a standalone work.

He says it did not begin with the idea of creating an encounter between Houellebecq and Depardieu, but with a screenplay he wrote that had "a particularity" in that the main characters are played by themselves.

[2] Houellebecq and Depardieu did not know each other before but responded positively when Nicloux told them he planned to create an encounter between them within a fictional story.

[3] Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter described it as a sequel to The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq and said you need to see the first film for Thalasso to fully make sense.