This is Jean Grémillons version of José Serrano’s zarzuela, shot in Spain, complete with songs. A fascinating example of Grémillon’s lifelong attempt to engage music and cinema.

Our Lady of Sorrows (La dolorosa) 1934.mkv

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Runtime:	1h 14mn
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https://nitro.download/view/4C06D2A011847A9/Our_Lady_of_Sorrows_(La_dolorosa)_1934.mkv

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:
Shades of Othello loom in this engrossing exploration of class, race, and murder set on an ocean liner. Young Dainah encounters an engineer on board who mistakes pleasantries for flirtation. When she disappears the next day, suspicion spreads not only to the engineer but also to Dainah’s husband. Forward-thinking and absorbing.

Dainah la metisse (1932) -- Jean Gremillon.mkv

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Runtime: 	51mn 13s
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#1:  	French 2.0ch AC-3 @ 256 Kbps
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https://nitro.download/view/6EEC9E7D014ED7F/Dainah_la_metisse_(1932)_–_Jean_Gremillon.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French, Russian (muxed)

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Synopsis:
Étienne, a modest carpenter, believes he has found the perfect partner in Irène, a beautiful young woman who appears to be devoted to him. But Irène is not the simple housemaid she pretends to be. In truth, she is the wife of a wealthy man, living in a grand house where she plays hostess at her frequent soirées to the cream of Parisian society. Irène is content with her double life until the day she discovers she is pregnant with Étienne’s child. After the baby is born, Irène promises to marry Étienne, without telling him that she must first persuade her present husband to agree to a divorce. Étienne’s hopes for future happiness are dashed when the business he attempts to set up fails and his child falls dangerously ill. The final blow comes when he visits Irène at the house where she claims to work and discovers the truth that she has long concealed from him…
— James Travers .

Strange Madame X (1951) -- Jean Gremillon.mkv

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Runtime: 	1h 29mn
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https://nitro.download/view/194FC7C6093A0BF/Strange_Madame_X_(1951)_–_Jean_Gremillon.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/1E75AD34A480BC9/Strange_Madame_X_(1951)_–_Jean_Gremillon.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French, Russian (muxed), English (srt)

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Summary
This tender, muscular, fatalistic film rematches Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan (after Le quai des brumes) in an anguished love triangle with Madeleine Renaud, Grémillon’s favorite actress. Love, obligation and desire play out against the backdrop of the merciless ocean and the seductive escape of sea-going.

Laurent (Gabin) is a tugboat owner who rescues a merchant vessel from a violent sea. Besides its unscrupulous captain, the rescued ship’s most dangerous cargo is his restless and seductive wife (Morgan). Meanwhile, Gabin’s devoted but ailing wife (Renaud) waits impatiently for him at home…

As dbdumonteil notes, the plot is banal… but Gabin, Prévert and Armand Thirard’s luminous lighting paint it in forty shades of grey.
(filmnutz)

Remorques - Jean Gremillon (1941).mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 24 min
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https://nitro.download/view/C38EE767748B2C2/Remorques_-_Jean_Gremillon_(1941).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/12D95D0A7DFC64B/Remorques_-_Jean_Gremillon_(1941).en.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker. Scripted by Jacques Prévert and Pierre Laroche, the film was banned from theaters for the duration of the occupation for its dark portrayal of the hedonistic excesses of the ruling class. Today, it is often singled out as Jean Grémillon’s greatest achievement. Written by Anonymous

	
Lumiere.dete.1943.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-SbR.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 50 min
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https://nitro.download/view/4355D2E0511A5C9/Lumiere.dete.1943.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-SbR.part4.rar

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

The post Jean Grémillon – Lumière d’été (1943) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The “white paws” of this noirish melodrama are the gaudy white spats sported by a reclusive French aristocrat in a fishing village on the coast of Normandy. Scripted by French playwright Jean Anouilh, who was originally to have directed it, Pattes blanches was ultimately brought to the screen by Grémillon, who accepted the project after the commercial failure of his Le ciel est à vous. The moody plot concerns the relationship of the aristocrat (Bernard) and his vengeful half-brother (Bouquet) and their rivalry over a promiscuous flirt from the city (Delair) who has married the local innkeeper. Although produced within the framework of the commercial cinema, Grémillon’s film manages to imbue the melodrama with a sharp sense of class divisions and his characteristic visual harmonies. (Harvard Film Archives)

5.47GB | 1h 43m | 986×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/9E374B2D85F32D0/Pattes_Blanches.1949.720p.BluRay.AVC-mfcorrea.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:French,English

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Considering that it was made during a bleak and distressing period for France, Le Ciel est à vous is an astonishingly uplifting film with a message of unfettered hope for the future. It is not difficult to read director Jean Grémillon’s allegorical call to arms behind the rather anodyne tale about a Lindbergh-esque exploit, based on the real-life story of Andrée Dupeyron, the wife of a garage owner in Mont-de-Marsan. Released in February 1944, a few months before the Liberation, the film was enormously popular in France, galvanising the efforts of the Resistance and their covert supporters with its inspiring subtext. Although Jean Grémillon would go on to make three more notable films, Le Ciel est à vous was his last commercial success, the highpoint of his career before a rapid decline into obscurity.

Le Ciel est à vous is significant for two reasons. Firstly, it is a rare example of a French social drama, using a strikingly neo-realist approach, with real locations and down-to-Earth characters to convincingly depict a French community in the mid-1940s. This makes a stark contrast with the contrived studio-bound melodramas which were far more prevalent at the time. More significant is its distinctly feminist slant, which is unusual, if not unprecedented, for a film of this era. As in many of Grémillon’s previous films, it is a woman who is the prime mover in the story whilst the main male character plays a lesser, more subservient role.

This portrayal of women is in direct opposition to the opinion of the Vichy government, which insisted that the woman’s place was in the home, looking after the husband and children. In this film, the woman, Thérèse Gauthier (magnificently portrayed by Madeleine Renaud), is a free spirit who dominates her husband and neglects her children in order to pursue her own dream. Whilst this is perhaps not the most positive portrayal of female independence, it effectively makes the point that women have a right to be accorded equal status with men and, like their male counterparts, should be allowed to pursue their ambitions rather than feel obliged to tie themselves to the kitchen sink. It’s a provocative statement when you consider that, in France, women were not eligible to vote until July 1944, some months after the film was released.

1.50GB | 1h 47mn | 720×540 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/E1898AEE7CD13FB/1944_Le_ciel_est_a_vous_AKA_The_Sky_is_Yours.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English

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