Career
After directing a number of documentaries during the 1920s, many now lost, he had his first substantial success with the dramatic feature Maldone in 1928. 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. lieutenant is a vivifying, inexhaustible source of images that strike our imaginations and enchant our hearts."
Maldone (Misdeal, silent, 1928)
Gardiens de phare (The Lighthouse Keepers, silent, 1929)
Louisiana Petite Lise (1930)
Daïnah la métisse (1931)
Le Petit Babouin (1932)
Pour un sou d"amour (Foreign One Cent"s Worth of Love, 1932)
Gonzague (aka L"Accordeur, 1933)
Valse royale (1935)
Pattes de mouches (1936)
L"Étrange Monsieur Victor (Strange M Victor, 1937)
¡Centinela, alerta! (1937)
Gueule d"amour (Lady Killer, 1937)
Remorques (Stormy Waters, 1941)
Lumière d"été (Summer Light, 1943)
Le 6 juin à l"aube (documentary, 1946)
Les Charmes de l"existence (The Charms of Life, 1949)
Pattes blanches (White Paws, 1949)
L"Étrange Madame X (The Strange Madame X, 1951)
L"Amour d"une femme (The Love of a Woman, 1954)
Sellier, Geneviève (1989).
Paris: Méridiens Klincksieck.
(Correct date of birth: p 13)
Online
Enchanted Realism: The Films of Jean Grémillon program guide to Facets Multimedia mini-retrospective ("Mechanical naturalismthe discovery").
