Director
Jean Grémillon
128 years · Bayeux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France · 25 films
Jean Grémillon was a French film director. After directing a number of documentaries during the 1920s, many now lost, Grémillon had his first substantial success with the dramatic feature Maldone in 1928. Over the next quarter-century, he directed twenty more feature films, of which he is best known for five made between 1937 and 1944: Gueule d'amour (1937), L'Étrange M. Victor (1938), Remorques (1941), Lumière d'été (1943), and Le Ciel est à vous (1944), all but the first starring Madeleine Renaud. Grémillon rejected what he referred to as "mechanical naturalism" in favor of "the discovery of that subtlety which the human eye does not perceive directly but which must be shown by establishing the harmonies, the unknown relations, between objects and beings; it is a vivifying, inexhaustible source of images that strike our imaginations and enchant our hearts." He died on November 25, 1959 in Paris, France.
Best known for
Filmography 25
André Masson and the Four Elements
1958 · Director, Screenplay
Haute-Lisse
1956 · Music, Director
The House of Images
1955 · Director
In the Heart of the Ile de France
1954 · Director
The Love of a Woman
1953 · Director, Writer
Alchemy
1952 · Writer, Director
The Strange Madame X
1951 · Director
The Charms of Life
1949 · Narrator, Director
White Paws
1949 · Director
The Sixth of June at Dawn
1947 · Director, Writer
The Woman Who Dared
1944 · Director
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Summer Light
1943 · Director
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Stormy Waters
1941 · Director
The Strange Monsieur Victor
1938 · Director
Lady Killer
1937 · Director, Editor
Guard! Alert!
1937 · Director
Les pattes de mouche
1936 · Director
The Royal Waltz
1936 · Director
Gonzague
1934 · Director, Screenplay
La Dolorosa
1934 · Director, Writer
Dainah the Mixed
1932 · Director
For One Cent's Worth of Love
1932 · Director
Little Lise
1930 · Director
The Lighthouse Keepers
1929 · Director, Editor