Noël Simsolo

Three French pals take to the road in a stolen car and discover a talking, wounded stork — who claims to have deserted the Algerian army — and...

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

In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her...

Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous...

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

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

Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian...

Working extremely hard to keep his hotel afloat, Paul begins hearing voices in his head. Convinced that his wife has been unfaithful, he begins to...

A biography of the eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of "animal...

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

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

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

A well-known politician receives a tape showing her son in a porno movie. She decides to hire a female detective to figure out who is trying to...

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

What is the future of cinema? In 1982, in Cannes, Wim Wenders invited many movie makers to answer this question. 26 years later, the question...

During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the...

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...

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...

A short video by filmmaker Noel Simsolo discussing Jean Cocteau and Jean-Pierre Melville’s creative relationship and the production of the 1950...

Bernardette is feeling bored in a country house. She decides to send weekend invitations to a lot of people.

The destiny of Sergio Leone from his poor childhood in a neighborhood under fascism in Rome until his last film in America. This guided the...

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

A documentary about the French porn industry, focusing on French porn superstar Claudine Beccarie.

In 1976 in Nice, Agnes, the daughter of the owner of the Palais de la Méditerranée, falls in love with an older lawyer.

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...

The mayor of a small provincial town, caught up in mundane affairs and corruption, summons his three deputies before fleeing: one of them will have...

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

One night Alice can't stand her husband anymore and she decides to leave him. It's a dark, rainy night and something smashes the windshield so Alice...

The first episode – featuring frequent Borowczyk muse Marina Pierro – is the longest and, in a way, most substantial: it’s set in Renaissance...

Commissioner Maigret rushes to the Quai d’Orsay with Lieutenant Janvier. There, they find Mademoiselle Larrieu in a state of shock. That very...

A prominent Parisian lawyer, at the dawn of a political career, is welcomed by an old friend and her wife and daughter during a journey in the...

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