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.
Filmography
all 33
Movies 32
Director 28
Narrator 2
TV Shows 1
self 1
Writer 1
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (1978)
André Masson and the Four Elements (1958)
Haute-Lisse (1958)
La maison aux images (1955)
In the heart of Ile de France (1954)
The Love of a Woman (1953)
Alchemy (1952)
Astrology or the mirror of life (1952)
The Strange Madame X (1951)
The Charms of Life (1949)
White Paws (1949)
Les désastres de la guerre (1949)
The Sixth of June at Dawn (1947)
Le Journal de la Résistance (1945)
The Woman Who Dared (1944)
Summer Light (1943)
Stormy Waters (1941)
Strange M. Victor (1938)
Lady Killer (1937)
Guard! Alert! (1937)
Les pattes de mouche (1936)
Valse royale (1936)
Gonzague (1934)
La Dolorosa (1934)
Dainah the Mixed (1932)
For One Cent's Worth of Love (1932)
Little Lise (1930)
The Lighthouse Keepers (1929)
Misdeal (1928)
Casting Ella Maillart (1926)
Essais au bord de la mer (1926)
La photogénie mécanique (1924)
Chartres (1923)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1902-10-03
Deathday1959-11-25 (57 years old)
Birth PlaceBayeux, France
RelationshipsGénica Athanasiou (1928-01-01 - 1940-01-01)
CitizenshipsFrance
Also Known AsJean Gremillon
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