Tous les Matins du Monde (1991)
Country: FR
Technical: col 115m
Director: Alain Corneau
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Anne Brochet, Guillaume Depardieu
Synopsis:
The seventeenth century: court master musician Marin Marais sees himself as a fraud and an impostor, recalling how he learned and stole from the true genius of his time, a certain Monsieur de Ste. Colombe.
Review:
A beautifully composed film, in some ways as austere as the Jansenist master of the viola da gamba on whom it shines a revealing light, rather like the Mozart/Salieri story turned on its head. The music is played and recorded by the master exponent of his own era, Jordi Savall; what a pity, then, that some of Monsieur Marielle's movements conform less than happily with the music. The acting, though, is fine indeed, the theme of music's own purity and ineffable quality well caught; this was one of the more substantial period pieces of the great French heritage cinema boom.
Country: FR
Technical: col 115m
Director: Alain Corneau
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Anne Brochet, Guillaume Depardieu
Synopsis:
The seventeenth century: court master musician Marin Marais sees himself as a fraud and an impostor, recalling how he learned and stole from the true genius of his time, a certain Monsieur de Ste. Colombe.
Review:
A beautifully composed film, in some ways as austere as the Jansenist master of the viola da gamba on whom it shines a revealing light, rather like the Mozart/Salieri story turned on its head. The music is played and recorded by the master exponent of his own era, Jordi Savall; what a pity, then, that some of Monsieur Marielle's movements conform less than happily with the music. The acting, though, is fine indeed, the theme of music's own purity and ineffable quality well caught; this was one of the more substantial period pieces of the great French heritage cinema boom.
Country: FR
Technical: col 115m
Director: Alain Corneau
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Anne Brochet, Guillaume Depardieu
Synopsis:
The seventeenth century: court master musician Marin Marais sees himself as a fraud and an impostor, recalling how he learned and stole from the true genius of his time, a certain Monsieur de Ste. Colombe.
Review:
A beautifully composed film, in some ways as austere as the Jansenist master of the viola da gamba on whom it shines a revealing light, rather like the Mozart/Salieri story turned on its head. The music is played and recorded by the master exponent of his own era, Jordi Savall; what a pity, then, that some of Monsieur Marielle's movements conform less than happily with the music. The acting, though, is fine indeed, the theme of music's own purity and ineffable quality well caught; this was one of the more substantial period pieces of the great French heritage cinema boom.