Jean Grémillon
Directing
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
Directing33
movieHaute-Lisse
1956
Director
movieThe House of Images
1955
Director
movieThe Love of a Woman
1953
Director
movieAlchemy
1952
Director
movieThe Strange Madame X
1951
Director
movieThe Charms of Life
1949
Director
movieWhite Paws
1949
Director
movieThe Woman Who Dared
1944
Director
movieSummer Light
1943
Director
movieStormy Waters
1941
Director
movieLady Killer
1937
Director
movieGuard! Alert!
1937
Director
movieLes pattes de mouche
1936
Director
movieThe Royal Waltz
1936
Director
movieGonzague
1934
Director
movieLa Dolorosa
1934
Director
movieDainah the Mixed
1932
Director
movieLittle Lise
1930
Director
movieThe Lighthouse Keepers
1929
Director
movieMisdeal
1928
Director
La vie des travailleurs italiens en France
1926
Director
Chartres
1923
Director
Writing10
movieThe Love of a Woman
1953
Story, Writer, Dialogue
movieAlchemy
1952
Writer
movieThe Charms of Life
1949
Screenplay
movieGonzague
1934
Dialogue, Screenplay
movieLa Dolorosa
1934
Writer
Acting3
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
Self (archive footage)
movieThe Charms of Life
1949
Narrator
Editing3
Sound2
movieHaute-Lisse
1956
Original Music Composer
movieMisdeal
1928
Original Music Composer