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Jean Grémillon

Jean Grémillon

Director · 1898–1959 · Bayeux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France

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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. 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.

Directed 25

1950s

  1. 1958

    André Masson and the Four Elements

    Director

  2. 1956

    Haute-Lisse

    Director

  3. 1955

    The House of Images

    Director

  4. 1954

    In the Heart of the Ile de France

    Director

  5. 1953

    The Love of a Woman

    Director

  6. 1952

    Alchemy

    Director

  7. 1951

    The Strange Madame X

    Director

1940s

  1. 1949

    The Charms of Life

    Director

  2. White Paws

    Director

  3. 1947

    The Sixth of June at Dawn

    Director

  4. 1944

    The Woman Who Dared

    Director

  5. 1943

    Summer Light

    Director

  6. 1941

    Stormy Waters

    Director

1930s

  1. 1938

    The Strange Monsieur Victor

    Director

  2. 1937

    Lady Killer

    Director

    72

  3. Guard! Alert!

    Director

  4. 1936

    Les pattes de mouche

    Director

  5. The Royal Waltz

    Director

  6. 1934

    Gonzague

    Director

  7. La Dolorosa

    Director

  8. 1932

    Dainah the Mixed

    Director

  9. For One Cent's Worth of Love

    Director

  10. 1930

    Little Lise

    Director

1920s

  1. 1929

    The Lighthouse Keepers

    Director

  2. 1928

    Misdeal

    Director

Wrote 7

1950s

  1. 1958

    André Masson and the Four Elements

    Screenplay

  2. 1953

    The Love of a Woman

    Dialogue, Writer, Story

  3. 1952

    Alchemy

    Writer

1940s

  1. 1949

    The Charms of Life

    Screenplay

  2. 1947

    The Sixth of June at Dawn

    Writer

1930s

  1. 1934

    Gonzague

    Dialogue, Screenplay

  2. La Dolorosa

    Writer

Sound 2

1950s

  1. 1956

    Haute-Lisse

    Original Music Composer

1920s

  1. 1928

    Misdeal

    Original Music Composer

Edited 2

1920s

  1. 1929

    The Lighthouse Keepers

    Editor

Appearances1

1940s

  1. 1949

    The Charms of Life

    Narrator