Simon Abkarian

In this article: Tunis, World War II, Palm Springs International Film Festival, and Romeo and Juliet

Simon Abkarian (born 5 March 1962) is a French actor. Born in Gonesse, Val d'Oise of Armenian descent, Abkarian spent his childhood in Lebanon. He moved to Los Angeles, where he joined an Armenian theater company managed by Gerald...

In this article: Spooks, Paris, Los Angeles, and France

Drama. Starring Lizzie Brochere, Olympe Borval, Karin Albou and Simon Abkarian. Written and directed by Karin Albou. (In French, Arabic and German with English subtitles. Not rated. 100 minutes. Presented by the San Francisco Film Society at...

In this article: The Wedding Song, La Petite Jerusalem, Tunis, World War II, and San Francisco

...Poles, Hungarians and Romanians. Plainly meant as a corrective to present-day anti-immigrant politics, the film has Manouchian (Simon Abkarian) and his wife (Virginie Ledoyen) at its centre, but also tells of several other members of the...

In this article: Virginie Ledoyen and France

...and the desperate stirrings of resistance among certain men and women. At its centre is an Armenian poet, Missan Manouchian (Simon Abkarian), a reluctant killer to begin, later the ringleader of a team of young insurgents that cut a...

In this article: Paris and Jean-Pierre Darroussin

...survivors who use Michelangelo’s camera almost as a confessional. </p><p> And what a crew they are:</p><p> •Merlin (Simon Abkarian) is the flighty, high-energy designer. </p><p>•Lettuce Leaf (Lily Cole) is a big-eyed,...

In this article: Sally Potter, Michelangelo, Lily Cole, 20th Century Fox, Jude Law, Adriana Barraza, and Judi Dench

...broadly cartooned social types, though some are vividly entertaining, as of the actors themselves, their faces and mannerisms. Simon Abkarian overdoes it joyously in piratical hat and piratical whiskers a la John Galliano, emoting...

In this article: Sally Potter, Lily Cole, Steve Buscemi, Judi Dench, Eddie Izzard, Jude Law, Pizza, Irreducible, and Consumerism

...phone, behind the scenes of a show at New York fashion week. Fourteen characters each have a role in the show, from the designer (Simon Abkarian) and his models (Lily Cole and Jude Law), the fashion critic (Judi Dench) and photographer...

In this article: UK, Skype, Twitter, Lily Cole, Jude Law, Judi Dench, Eddie Izzard, John Leguizamo, and Steve Buscemi

...supermodel Lily Cole shows that she has some real acting chops. Other characters include a fashion designer, Merlin, played by Simon Abkarian with more than a hint of John Galliano about him, a pizza boy (Riz Ahmed), a Latino seamstress...

In this article: Sally Potter, Lily Cole, Jude Law, DVD, Michelangelo, New York, Pizza, Peroxide, and Skype

...through a series of interviews, as if shot by a schoolboy on his mobile phone over a seven-day period. The film, which features Simon Abkarian, Steve Buscemi, Lily Cole, Judi Dench, Eddie Izzard, Jude Law, John Leguizamo and Dianne Wiest,...

In this article: Sally Potter, Babelgum, United Kingdom, Iphone, IPod, Lily Cole, Jude Law, and Judi Dench