Jean Gremilion directed this eclectic French tale of a lighthouse keeper and his half-mad son.
This Saturday, Music Box will screen Jean Grémillon's extraordinary silent feature The Lighthouse Keepers (1929) from a rare 35-millimeter print. Films by this inventive French director are hard to come by in this country, particularly the silent ones—only three of Grémillon's films, all made in the 1940s, are available on DVD in the U.S. But even if Grémillon's work were more readily available, he might still have a narrow reputation.…
Jean Gremilion directed this eclectic French tale of a lighthouse keeper and his half-mad son.
This Saturday, Music Box will screen Jean Grémillon's extraordinary silent feature The Lighthouse Keepers (1929) from a rare 35-millimeter print. Films by this inventive French director are hard to come by in this country, particularly the silent ones—only three of Grémillon's films, all made in the 1940s, are available on DVD in the U.S. But even if Grémillon's work were more readily available, he might still have a narrow reputation.…