Jean Grémillon

Directing·Mar 4, 1898·Bayeux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France

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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.

Film	Credit
André Masson and the Four Elements1958 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Haute-Lisse1956 · Director	Director
The House of Images1955 · Director	Director
In the Heart of the Ile de France1954 · Director	Director
The Love of a Woman1953 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Alchemy1952 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
AAstrology or the mirror of life1952 · Narrator (voice), Director	Narrator (voice), Director
The Strange Madame X1951 · Director	Director
The Charms of Life1949 · Narrator, Director, Screenplay	Narrator, Director, Screenplay
White Paws1949 · Director	Director
LLes désastres de la guerre1949 · Director	Director
The Sixth of June at Dawn1947 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Woman Who Dared1944 · Director	Director
Summer Light1943 · Director	Director
Stormy Waters1941 · Director	Director
The Strange Monsieur Victor1938 · Director	Director
Lady Killer1937 · Director	Director
Guard! Alert!1937 · Director	Director
Les pattes de mouche1936 · Director	Director
The Royal Waltz1936 · Director	Director
Gonzague1934 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
La Dolorosa1934 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Dainah the Mixed1932 · Director	Director
For One Cent's Worth of Love1932 · Director	Director
Little Lise1930 · Director	Director
The Lighthouse Keepers1929 · Director	Director
Misdeal1928 · Director	Director
UUn tour au large1926 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
CCasting Ella Maillart1926 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
EEssais au bord de la mer1926 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
LLa vie des travailleurs italiens en France1926 · Director	Director
LLa photogénie mécanique1924 · Director	Director
CChartres1923 · Director	Director