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Jean Grémillon
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.
As director
André Masson and the Four Elements
Haute-Lisse
The House of Images
In the Heart of the Ile de France
The Love of a Woman
Alchemy
Astrology or the mirror of life
The Strange Madame X
White Paws
The Charms of Life
Les désastres de la guerre
The Sixth of June at Dawn
The Woman Who Dared
Summer Light
Stormy Waters
The Strange Monsieur Victor
Lady Killer
Guard! Alert!
The Royal Waltz
Les pattes de mouche
La Dolorosa
Gonzague
Dainah the Mixed
For One Cent's Worth of Love
Little Lise
The Lighthouse Keepers
Misdeal
Casting Ella Maillart
Essais au bord de la mer
La vie des travailleurs italiens en France