Jean Grémillon
Born: 1898-03-04 in Bayeux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
Died: 1959-11-25
Known For: Directing
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
1978
- Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma as Self (archive footage)
1958
- André Masson and the Four Elements ... (Director)
1956
- Haute-Lisse ... (Original Music Composer)
1955
- The House of Images ... (Director)
1954
- In the Heart of the Ile de France ... (Director)
1953
- The Love of a Woman ... (Director)
1952
- Astrology or the mirror of life as Narrator (voice)
- Alchemy ... (Writer)
1951
- The Strange Madame X ... (Director)
1949
- White Paws ... (Director)
- Les désastres de la guerre ... (Director)
- The Charms of Life as Narrator
1947
- The Sixth of June at Dawn ... (Writer)
1944
- The Woman Who Dared ... (Director)
1943
- Summer Light ... (Director)
1941
- Stormy Waters ... (Director)
1938
- The Strange Monsieur Victor ... (Director)
1937
- Guard! Alert! ... (Director)
- Lady Killer ... (Director)
1936
- The Royal Waltz ... (Director)
- Les pattes de mouche ... (Director)
1934
- La Dolorosa ... (Director)
- Gonzague ... (Director)
1932
- Dainah the Mixed ... (Director)
- For One Cent's Worth of Love ... (Director)
1930
- Little Lise ... (Director)
1929
- The Lighthouse Keepers ... (Director)
1928
- Misdeal ... (Original Music Composer)
1926
- La vie des travailleurs italiens en France ... (Director)
- Essais au bord de la mer ... (Writer)
- Un tour au large ... (Director)
- Casting Ella Maillart ... (Writer)
1924
- La photogénie mécanique ... (Director)
1923
- Chartres ... (Editor)