PASSION SIMPLE / SIMPLE PASSION

Single mother Hélène falls into an addictive relationship with a Russian diplomat Alexandre, with whom she has nothing in common.

DANIJELA ARBID / Danielle Arbid

Danielle Arbid (Beirut, 1970) has directed feature-length documentaries including Alone with War (2001), with which she won the Silver Leopard in the video category at Locarno (2002). Her first two fictional films, In the Battlefields (2004) and A Lost Man (2007), were selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at the Festival de Cannes. The third, Parisienne (2016), screened at Toronto Festival and won the Prix de L’Académie Lumière bestowed by the foreign press in France in 2016. Passion simple (2020) is her fourth fiction feature film and part of the official selection of films for the Festival de Cannes 2020, finally cancelled due to covid-19.

Danielle Arbid delves right to the very heart of an irrepressible and incandescent love which ends up driving a woman to distraction

Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa