Jean Grémillon at the Museum of the Moving Image (NY)

Join the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) in New York for the Jean Grémillon series from Friday, November 21 to Sunday, December 21, 2014.

“Who could fail to sense the greatness of this art, in which the visible is the sign of the invisible?” – Jean Grémillon

Jean Grémillon (1901–1959) left his native Normandy with the ambition to be a composer, but while working in the orchestra pit as a silent film accompanist, he fell in love with movies. The lyrical, musical films that he would go on to create both predicted and transcended 1930s French “poetic realism”—for Grémillon was too much an iconoclast to belong to any movement...

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