Noël Simsolo

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 police auxiliary and thus increase the number of police officers. Each citizen will be able to defend himself by becoming a police officer.

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 filmmaker's personal life and career to create his epic antiheroes and spaghetti westerns.

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 to succeed. From then on, Veyron, Ben and Karabik, mere office colleagues, become fierce rivals with betrayals, inventions, revelations.

Laurent is seeking a path in life after living his childhood and teenage years in laziness. He has a conflictual relationship with Rodolphe, his father, and both are too emotional to express their mutual affection. Despite the women of his life hanging around him , Rodolphe has but one obsession: meeting Marguerite again, the first love of his life.

En 1976, tras el fracaso de su matrimonio, Agnès Le Roux vuelve de África , a ver a su madre, Renée propietaria del casino Le Palais de la Méditerranée en Niza. La joven se enamora del hombre de confianza de su madre, el mujeriego Maurice Agnelet , un abogado diez años mayor que ella. Agnès, que es accionista del casino, quiere vender su parte para independizarse. Una partida amañada enloquece las cajas del salón de juego. Detrás de esta maniobra está la mafia y Fratoni, el jefe del casino de la competencia que quiere quedarse con el casino de Renée.

No hay pasión más peligrosa que la cinefilia. Si no, fíjense en Sylvain, un joven taquillero de una vieja sala de arte y ensayo a punto de cerrar, que dedica su tiempo libre a saldar sus deudas con las mujeres asesinando silenciosamente y a golpe de puñaladas. Pocas veces el plástico y colorista póster de Playtime de Tati ha parecido tan sombrío. El director Laurent Achard traslada los referentes cinéfilos al universo frío y aterrador de un asesino en serie. Una imagen medida, una estética marcadamente retro y un dominio rotundo de los tiempos aderezan esta cinta de celuloide ensangrentado.

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 remains, but Wenders is now on the other side of the camera.

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

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

El maestro del suspense evoca sus obras de juventud y las confidencias previas a la creación de la obra de François Truffaut, "Hitchcock-Truffaut".

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

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

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 help it to escape to the home of a relative in Germany.

Eloise, una niña de diez años, aparece estrangulada en un pueblo de Bretaña. La policía comienza interrogando a René, profesor de dibujo y última persona que vio a la niña con vida. Aunque René, y sobre todo su mujer, Viviane, enfermera a domicilio, son queridos en el puebio, no son nativos de la región. Una segunda muerte violenta acaba por aterrorizar al pueblo.

This documentary consists mainly of archive interviews of Jean Cocteau, and it features interesting contributions by Jean Marais and especially Jean-Luc Godard, who discusses Cocteau's foray into cinema. The film documents all the artistic media explored by a man who defined himself, first and foremost, as a poet.

This documentary consists mainly of archive interviews of Jean Cocteau, and it features interesting contributions by Jean Marais and especially Jean-Luc Godard, who discusses Cocteau's foray into cinema. The film documents all the artistic media explored by a man who defined himself, first and foremost, as a poet.

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

Three old sisters get together every Sunday. For Epiphany Sunday, the program is busy: eating at the Chinese restaurant, drawing the kings and finally going to see, reluctantly, the show of the fourth sister, the extravagant one, the scandalous one, who is part of a comic troupe of the third age...

Rosa la Rose is the most beautiful prostitute of Les Halles. Every client wants her and she accepts everything. Her pimp is a sympathetic and generous man and there is not much to tell about Rosa’s life. Until one day she meets Julien, a young guy, and falls in love with him. But will it be worthy to leave her life for a madness love?

During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera and answer a simple question: "What is the future of cinema?"

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

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 magnificently at the piano, and leaves as mysteriously as she came. Meanwhile, an unidentified man is on her trail and eventually tracks her down to the bar she had visited. As the dragnet around her closes in, it becomes apparent that the young woman's stepmother is behind the effort to locate her. But questions over why she is hiding out and what she is hiding from begin to take on more importance as the history of the young woman starts to surface.

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 magnificently at the piano, and leaves as mysteriously as she came. Meanwhile, an unidentified man is on her trail and eventually tracks her down to the bar she had visited. As the dragnet around her closes in, it becomes apparent that the young woman's stepmother is behind the effort to locate her. But questions over why she is hiding out and what she is hiding from begin to take on more importance as the history of the young woman starts to surface.

Cortometraje de Noël Simsolo producido por la casa francesa Diagonale, fundada por Paul Vecchiali.

Película erótica francesa

Simone and Martine are usherettes in a porno cinema in Montparnasse. Installed in the hall, they greet regulars, put men in their place, chat and pass the time. At midnight Simone departs to a lesbian nightclub.

Un cuarentón en paro se va a la aventura al sur de Francia, donde conocerá a una joven actriz.

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

Murio el gran pintor del Renacimiento Raphael Sanzio a causa del frío que cogió en las ruinas de Roma. O fue por agotamiento de placer. Solo una persona conoció la verdad, Margherita Luti, la ardiente y ambiciosa esposa romana del panadero quien, posando como modelo y siendo la amante del artista, fue testigo de sus últimos momentos de vida.

Gaëtan de Vibestu learns from his lawyer that he will inherit a castle and a very large fortune. However, there is one condition: Gaëtan must remain single and not come close to a woman. Very soon, he will have to show a great imagination to deceive lawyer"s surveillance...

Un director fetichista se acerca a dos jóvenes actrices. Una de ellos presta su abrigo de cuero al otra. Cortometraje producido por Paul Vecchiali, es una de las tres películas del primer año de Diagonale - junto a La Machine, dirigida por el propio Vecchiali y Le Théâtre des matières de Jean-Claude Biette.

Alice Carroll le comunica a su marido que va a dejarle. Ante la insistencia de éste de que no lo haga, la mujer, que ya no soporta a su esposo, temerosa de que éste la retenga, huye en su coche a pesar de que está lloviendo torrencialmente. Pero en un momento de su fuga, Alice detiene el coche, ya que la persistente lluvia no la deja ver a través de los cristales del coche. De esta forma, ella va a parar a un lugar que desconoce, siendo acogida amablemente por el dueño de una mansión, el aristócrata Heni Vergennes. Éste la invita a pasar la noche en el castillo. Alice accede y se toma un somnífero. A la mañana siguiente, cuando ella sale de su habitación, encuentra el desayuno preparado, pero en todo el inmueble no hay nadie. Cuando quiere salir, se encuentra que ha sido encerrada.

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 finished. Sexual obsession is a strength just as any other, more pure and more violent than most. Nothing else but what goes against our own nature should be hated.

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

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 blackmail her.

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 blackmail her.

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 blackmail her.

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

Dos actrices, interpretadas por Hélène Surgiré y Sonia Saviange, que ya no están en su mejor momento, conviven en un apartamento en París. Muy a lo Fassbinder, es un retrato duro, claustrofóbico, seco y a veces patéticamente divertido.

Dos actrices, interpretadas por Hélène Surgiré y Sonia Saviange, que ya no están en su mejor momento, conviven en un apartamento en París. Muy a lo Fassbinder, es un retrato duro, claustrofóbico, seco y a veces patéticamente divertido.

Alexandre es un joven burgués cínico y egoísta que vive en París. Se encuentra en un fase nihilista de su existencia: no estudia, no trabaja y apenas se interesa por los libros o por la música. Lo único que le interesa son las mujeres y, además, vive a su costa. Poco a poco va formando con Marie y Veronique, a pesar de la inicial resistencia de ambas, un atípico 'menage à trois', que, para él, es absolutamente satisfactorio porque representa un equilibrio entre lo sexual, lo maternal y lo material. Al mismo tiempo, es capaz de mantenerse al margen de los sentimientos de frustración o malestar que su conducta pueda provocar en sus amantes.