Jean Grémillon
33 movies
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Mar 4, 1898
- Died
- Nov 25, 1959 (age 61)
- Place of birth
- Bayeux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
- Also known as
- Jean Gremillon
Biography
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.
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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.
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Known for
Jean Grémillon: movies and TV shows
Acting (2)
- 1952 Astrology or the mirror of life
as Narrator (voice)
- 1949 The Charms of Life
as Narrator
Behind the camera (33)
- 1958 André Masson and the Four Elements
Director, Screenplay
- 1956 Haute-Lisse
Original Music Composer, Director
- 1955 The House of Images
Director
- 1954 In the Heart of the Ile de France
Director
- 1953 The Love of a Woman
Director, Dialogue, Writer, Story
- 1952 Alchemy
Writer, Director
- 1952 Astrology or the mirror of life
Director
- 1951 The Strange Madame X
Director
- 1949 The Charms of Life
Director, Screenplay
- 1949 White Paws
Director
- 1949 Les désastres de la guerre
Director
- 1947 The Sixth of June at Dawn
Director, Writer
- 1944 The Woman Who Dared
Director
- 1943 Summer Light
Director
- 1941 Stormy Waters
Director
- 1938 The Strange Monsieur Victor
Director
- 1937 Lady Killer
Director, Editor
- 1937 Guard! Alert!
Director
- 1936 Les pattes de mouche
Director
- 1936 The Royal Waltz
Director
- 1934 Gonzague
Director, Dialogue, Screenplay
- 1934 La Dolorosa
Director, Writer
- 1932 Dainah the Mixed
Director
- 1932 For One Cent's Worth of Love
Director
- 1930 Little Lise
Director
- 1929 The Lighthouse Keepers
Director, Editor
- 1928 Misdeal
Original Music Composer, Director
- 1926 Un tour au large
Director, Writer
- 1926 Casting Ella Maillart
Director, Writer
- 1926 Essais au bord de la mer
Director, Writer
- 1926
- 1924 La photogénie mécanique
Director
- 1923 Chartres
Director, Editor
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1978 Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
2 episodes