The Stylish Humanism of Jean Grémillon
Lumière D’été | France | 1943 | 35mm | 110 min. | French with English subtitles Director: Jean Grémillon
Event Details
Date
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Madeleine Renaud, Pierre Brasseur, Madeleine Robinson
A luxurious mountaintop hotel 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. 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 Grémillon’s greatest achievement.
A luxurious mountaintop hotel 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. 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 Grémillon’s greatest achievement.
Cost
Free
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