Noël Simsolo Movies

Laurent is seeking a path in life after living his childhood and teenage years in laziness. He has a conflictual relationship with Rodolphe, his...

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

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

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

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...

Simone, a leather-clad porn theater worker, spends her shifts bantering with her coworker and observing eccentric customers in the cinema’s...

Three old sisters get together every Sunday. For Epiphany Sunday, the program is busy: eating at the Chinese restaurant, drawing the kings and...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

A travelogue of abandoned strip mining sites in France extolling their potential for recreational use.