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 quartercentury he directed twenty more feature films of which he is best known for five made between 1937 and 1944 Gueule damour 1937 LÉtrange M Victor 1938 Remorques 1941 Lumière dété 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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