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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.
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03 January 1936
In 1852, the young Austrian emperor Franz Joseph persuades his friend, Count Michel de Thalberg, to act as a go-between in his love affair with the Bavarian duchess Elisabeth.
01 July 1923
This early documentary by director Jean Grémillon highlights the textures and architectural details of the great Gothic cathedral at Chartres.
27 November 1941
A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.
03 September 1952
The film is a short documentary about alchemical engravings.
04 May 1938
Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and considerate to all who know him.
01 January 1952
Shortfilm showcasing Grémillon's love of astrology.
01 January 1949
Short documentary showcasing engravings by Goya.
01 January 1926
Images of water
23 March 1934
Superstitious new rich find that they will be thirteen at the table. To reassure themselves, they invite a piano tuner, named Gonzague, whom they pretend to be Prince Gonzague to their guests.
01 January 1926
Casting for a feature film
13 December 1953
Marie, a young doctor, settles down on the Ouessant Island. She will be able to win the diffidence of the local population but she will have to fight for her independence after falling in love with an Italian engineer.
26 March 1943
A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker.
03 February 1944
The strength of a couple's fascination with airplanes and flight is to the detriment of their family.
15 September 1937
Lucien Bourrache, a good looking non-commissioned officer at the Spahis, is used to charm many women.
13 April 1949
An eccentric man endangers himself when he makes advances toward the girlfriend of a saloon keeper.
04 December 1930
Victor Berthier, a good man but also a very jealous one, killed his wife in a fit of jealousy. After serving a few years in a chain gang, he is released for good behavior.
12 July 1937
The young Candelas, seduced and abandoned by Arturo, an unscrupulous womanizer, meets two soldiers, Tiburcio and Angelillo, who, in order to help the girl out of her predicament, organize a musical recital to raise money.
19 August 1932
After three weeks and a long, hot voyage across the Pacific, an ocean liner finally arrives at its destination, Ecuador.
14 September 1928
Maldone is a canal worker, happy with his life after running away from his family estate. He falls in love with Zita, a young gypsy girl, during a local fete.
26 February 1932
A millionaire,in love with an innocent girl,does not want to be loved for his money.So he asks his secretary to take his place and together they go to the heroine's desirable mansion.
24 May 1951
Irène is the unhappy wife of a wealthy publisher, Jacques Voisin-Larive, who cares about her no more than a beautiful piece of furniture.
25 September 1929
In a lighthouse off the coast of Brittany, a young man slowly goes mad following a bite by a rabid dog while his father looks on helplessly.
01 June 1949
An incisive exploration of the dubious beauty of "official" art.
01 January 1934
After a society lady abandons him for a cad, a sensitive young painter becomes a monk. But when his former beloved is later destitute with an illegitimate child, will he now be able to help her?
01 January 1958
A subtle reflection on the creative process of painter André Masson, and on creativity in general. It is at the crossroads of the documentary and the poem.
28 November 1947
The film starts by a visit to bucolic Normandy before the events. This peaceful atmosphere is shattered by Operation Overlord, minutely described in the second part of the documentary.
01 January 1955
Documentary about famous artists such as Dunoyer de Segonzac, Masson, Miró, Naly and Treemois who continue the tradition of colour engraving and produce rare stamps for high class books.
01 January 1926
A documentary about italiens workers who migrated to France.
01 January 1956
A captivating short film, showing the various processes in the production of a tapestry in the workshop of the famed Gobelins Manufactory.
01 January 1924
During the same mid 1920s period that future feature director Gremillon began his career making industrial and tourism short subjects, he also made this experimental short which displays the then popular avant garde technique of montage.
18 December 1954
Documentary
