Simone Simon

A video essay by filmmaker Constantine Nasr.

The newsreel series Jornal Português (1938-1951) was produced for the Secretariat of National Propa…

Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, ru…

Leading man Michel Piccoli plays Pierre, a young musician who briefly catches sight of a beautiful…

A 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps, featuring interviews with…

Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various per…

A soldier fighting for France loses his memory and has a second career as a national leader, but in…

Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascaril…

Three stories about pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep goi…

"Olivia" captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small f…

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets…

This is the sad story of several desperate ladies incarcerated somewhere in Italy in a camp for dis…