Summer Light
Lumière d'été
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.
Direction
Screenplay
Cast
Madeleine Renaud
Cricri
Pierre Brasseur
Roland
Madeleine Robinson
Michèle Lagarde
Paul Bernard
Patrice Le Verdier
Georges Marchal
Julien
Léonce Corne
Tonton
Charles Blavette
Vincent
Jane Marken
Louise Martinet
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Henri Pons
Amédée
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Gérard Lecomte
Dany
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Roland Manuel
Composer
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Louis Page
Cinematographer