Noël Simsolo
Acting
Biography
Noël Simsolo is a French film historian, actor, screenwriter and director, as well as a well-known novelist
Born: August 31, 1944
Place of Birth: Périgueux - Dordogne - France
Known For
Male of the Century
The wife of an extremely jealous merchant is held hostage by a bank robber.
The Mother and the Whore
Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika and as the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness.
'Round Midnight
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 too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.
Femmes femmes
The fantasies and dreams of two over-the-hill actresses are intertwined with their realities, as the two roommates struggle to survive their day-to-day lives in the expensive and difficult world of Paris.
Sergio Leone, une Amérique de légende
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.
Torment
Forced to work extremely hard to keep things afloat, Paul begins hearing voices in his head questioning his past choices. Convinced that his wife has been unfaithful, he begins to see every male guest as a potential threat. What follows is Paul's downward spiral into the madness of deranged jealousy where he finally discovers that hell is not a state of mind – hell is himself.
Children of the Stork
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.
Room 666
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 camera, and answer a simple question: "What is the future of cinema?"
Mesmer
A biography of the eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of "animal magnetism."
Alice or the Last Escapade
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 is forced to seek shelter in an old mansion. She is warmly welcomed but soon realises that strange things are happening. She tries to escape but it seems there's no way out.
Filmography
as Cardinal
as Préfet
as Avocat Agnelet
as M. Paul
as L'abbé
as Le narrateur
as Monsieur Bordier
as Royal Dog Handler
as M. Chabert
as (uncredited)
as Jeannot
as Self
as Un patient
as Le Réalisateur Belge de Films Porno
as Julio Romano
as Jeune Homme au Banquet
as Self (uncredited)
as Le juge
as Ferdinand Desprès
as L'homme qui raconte des histoires
as Pascal #1
as Ferdinand
as Café de Flore's Customer (uncredited)