Noël Simsolo Movies

Sylvain, a young man, devotes his life to small, local movie theater destined to be shut down. He lives in the theater's basement and is the theater...

A radiant young sex worker thrives amidst the clients of Paris’s Les Halles under the protectiveness of her pimp. Her carefully balanced...

Old Léon lives an hour outside Paris, in the company of one of his daughters, his son-in-law and his granddaughter. The latter agrees to take...

A troubled young woman who lives alone in a rundown house meanders around and one day reveals a hidden talent when she goes into a bar, plays...

Reel 5 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Written and directed by Hitchcock historian Noël Simsolo, this 2004 French television documentary explores the earliest years of Alfred...

A comedy on the theme of the law being debated where, in the face of growing insecurity and the upsurge in gratuitous violence, anyone can become a...

An interview with French film scholar Jean Narboni about Jean-Luc Godard's 1962 film VIVRE SA VIE.

A man looks for a job, ignoring the selection process of employees. Part of "Contes modernes: A propos du travail."

Shady poetry, all crimson and women’s legs as Pierre Molinier loved it – this poetry died with him a few days ago. This picture was...

On the screen, considered as a mental landscape, dance the multicolored shadows born from the spectacle of the struggle of flesh against death.

This documentary consists mainly of archive interviews of Jean Cocteau, and it features interesting contributions by Jean Marais and especially...

The fantasies and dreams of two over-the-hill actresses are intertwined with their realities, as the two roommates struggle to survive their...

The wife of an extremely jealous merchant is held hostage by a bank robber.

Reflection on the relationship between image and voice-over in cinema, punctuated by the reading of a short story by Sade recounting the incestuous...

Documentary about the making of Louis Malle's 1963 film "The Fire Within".

At 45, divorced, unemployed and father of two children, Franois Morot realizes that he can no longer support the society in which he lives and...

Semi-documentary exposé of scandalous hunting practices in the Sologne, a wooded area south of Orléans where he shared a house at the...