Philippe Sarde

Known for SoundBorn 1948-06-21 (age 77)Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Philippe Sarde (born 21 June 1948) is a French film composer. Considered among the most versatile and talented French film composers of his generation, Sarde has scored over two hundred films, film shorts, and television mini-series. He received an Academy Award nomination for Tess (1979), and twelve César Award nominations, winning for Barocco (1976) and The Judge and the Assassin (1976). In 1993, Sarde received the Joseph Plateau Music Award. Philippe Sarde was born 21 June 1948 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France. His mother, Andrée Gabriel, was a singer in the Paris Opera. Through his mother's encouragement, he became interested in music from the early age of three. When he was four years old, he conducted a brief section of Carmen at the Paris Opera. At the age of five, he began experimenting with sound recording and made his first short films. Sarde loved both music and film, and had trouble deciding on his career direction. Sarde entered the Paris Conservatory, where he studied harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and composition under Noël Gallon. At the age of seventeen, he directed a short 35-mm film in black and white, for which he composed the music, asking Vladimir Cosma to help him with the orchestration. At the age of eighteen, after writing songs for Régine, Sarde met Claude Sautet, who asked him to write the music for his film The Things of Life (1969). The experience established his career direction and initiated a long partnership with Sautet that spanned twenty-five years and eleven films. Sarde also established close associations with directors Bertrand Tavernier, Pierre Granier-Deferre, Georges Lautner, André Téchiné, and Jacques Doillon. Sarde also collaborated with Roman Polanski on The Tenant and Tess, which garnered an Academy Award nomination, Bertrand Blier's on Beau-Père, Alain Corneau on Fort Saganne, and Marshall Brickman on Lovesick, The Manhattan Project, and Sister Mary Explains It All. In 1988, Sarde was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. Film director Georges Lautner once observed that he was constantly amazed by the composer's ability to find a unique approach to each film that he scored. According to Yuri German, writing in the All Music Guide, Sarde's soundtracks are "masterfully and unconventionally arranged" and are often performed by such world-class musicians as Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Stéphane Grappelli, and Maurice Vander." In April 1990, Sarde married Nave Florence, but they divorced the following year. In 1994, he married Clotilde Burre. They have two daughters, Ponette (born 1998) and Liza (born 1999). Both are enrolled in the seventeenth arrondissement of Paris. Sarde is the brother of producer Alain Sarde. Source: Article "Philippe Sarde" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.Read more

Movies & web series

Un film et son époque

Sunfish

L'Argent

Filming 'Tess'

Victoire, ou la douleur des femmes

Iran: Days of Crisis

Tess: The Experience

Night Taxi

Tess: From Novel to Screen

Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic

Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary

The House of Jade

Forgery and the Use of Forgeries

Ponette

The Tenant

The Right to Love

The Boy Soldier

A Bad Son

André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema

The Cat

Music Box

La fille des collines

Borgo

L.627

The Bear

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud

The One I Loved

Cesar and Rosalie

Tess

Buffet Froid

Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future

Ennemis intimes

Two Men in Town

La Grande Bouffe

Max and the Junkmen

Coup de Torchon

Quest for Fire

The Things of Life

Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others

A Sunday in the Country

The Little Boy

A Thousand Billion Dollars

Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

On Guard

Young Werther

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

The Judge and the Assassin