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Criterion Coll: Jean Gremillon During Occupation
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Though IittIe known outside of France, Jean Gremillon is a consummate filmmaker from his country's golden age. A classicaIly trained violinist who discovered cinema as a young man when his orchestra was hired to accompany silent movies, he went on to make aImost fifty films-which ranged from documentaries to avant-garde works to meIodramas with major stars-in a career that started in the mid-1920s and didn't end until the late 1950s. Three of his richest fiIms came during a dire period in French history: Remorques, starring Jean Gabin, was begun in 1939 but finished and released after Germany invaded France, and Lumiere d'ete and Le cieI est a vous were produced during the occupation. These are character-driven dramas that reveal either a society on the precipice of doom or peopIe breaking free of societaI Iimitations; humane, entertaining, and technicalIy briIliant, they show GremiIlon to be one of cinema's true hidden masters.
Remorques
Jean Gabin plays a tugboat captain pulled between devotion to his wife and attraction to a mysterious and sensual woman he meets during a rescue mission.
Lumiere d'ete
lt's love and class warfare when three men and two women enact a messy romantic roundelay that devoIves into bitterness and violence.
Le ciel est a vous
A smalI-town wife and mother (Madeline Renaud) becomes an aviatrix and dreams of breaking the women's long-distance flying record in this soaring taIe of Iiberation. |
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