Known For
Directing
Born
Mar 04, 1898
Died
Nov 25, 1959
Place of Birth
Bayeux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
Credits
34 titles
Jean Grémillon
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.
Known For
Filmography
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage)
André Masson and the Four Elements
Director
Haute-Lisse
Original Music Composer
The House of Images
Director
In the Heart of the Ile de France
Director
The Love of a Woman
Director
Alchemy
Writer
Astrology or the mirror of life
Narrator (voice)
The Strange Madame X
Director
The Charms of Life
Narrator
White Paws
Director
Les désastres de la guerre
Director
The Sixth of June at Dawn
Director
The Woman Who Dared
Director
Summer Light
Director
Stormy Waters
Director
The Strange Monsieur Victor
Director
Lady Killer
Director
Guard! Alert!
Director
Les pattes de mouche
Director
The Royal Waltz
Director
Gonzague
Director
La Dolorosa
Director
Dainah the Mixed
Director
For One Cent's Worth of Love
Director
Little Lise
Director
The Lighthouse Keepers
Director
Misdeal
Original Music Composer
Un tour au large
Director
La vie des travailleurs italiens en France
Director
Essais au bord de la mer
Director
Casting Ella Maillart
Director
La photogénie mécanique
Director
Chartres
Director