Name Jean Gremillon | Role Film director | |
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Died November 25, 1959, Paris, France Spouse Christiane Gremillon (m. ?–1959) Nominations Venezia Classici Award for Best Restored Film Movies Stormy Waters, Lumiere d\'ete, Lady Killer, The Woman Who Dared, Dainah La Metisse Similar People Madeleine Renaud, Michele Morgan, Charles Spaak, Mireille Balin, Jean Gabin | ||
Jean Grémillon ([gʁemijɔ̃]; 3 October 1901 – 25 November 1959) was a French film director.
Contents
- Maldone 1928 Jean Gremillon The Ballroom Dance Scene
- Biography
- Selected films directed by Jean Grmillon
- References
Maldone | 1928 | Jean Gremillon | The Ballroom Dance Scene
Biography
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."
Selected films directed by Jean Grémillon
