directed by: Jean Grémillon, year: 1943
actors: Madeleine Renaud, Paul Bernard, Pierre Laroche

Lumière d'été (Summer Light) is a mid-century French drama directed by Jean Grémillon. The drama centers on a restrained romance that unfolds amid the heat and luminous textures of a small town in wartime France. With performances by Madeleine Renaud and Paul Bernard, and a screenplay by Jacques Prévert and Pierre Laroche, the film probes duty, desire and the limits of social convention. Its expert use of light, intimate staging and subtle moral tension marks Grémillon's humane, socially aware cinema.

Rural France, Drama, Romance, Poetic Realism, Wartime France