Jean Grémillon

Directeur, Éditeur, Acteur, Compositeur, Scénariste

4 mars 1898 — 25 novembre 1959 (61 ans)
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.

Connue pour

  • Remorques
    Remorques1941
  • Gueule d'amour
    Gueule d'amour1937
  • Le ciel est à vous
    Le ciel est à vous1944
  • Lumière d'été
    Lumière d'été1943
  • L'Étrange Monsieur Victor
    L'Étrange Monsieur Victor1938
  • Pattes blanches
    Pattes blanches1949
  • L'Amour d'une femme
    L'Amour d'une femme1953
  • Daïnah la métisse
    Daïnah la métisse1932
  • La Petite Lise
    La Petite Lise1930

Filmographie

1953
The Love of a Woman · as Le Curé

1946
Le 6 juin à l'aube · as Composer
1928
Misdeal · as Original Music Composer

1953
1946
Le 6 juin à l'aube · as Cinematographer