
Philippe Sarde
Biography
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.
Personal Info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1948-06-21
Place of Birth
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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Once Upon a Time... 'Tess'
20076.0 / 10
Symphonie métallique
20080.0 / 10
The Tenant
19767.6 / 10
Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic
20037.0 / 10
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
20177.5 / 10
Crew
The Bear
19887.1 / 10
A Captain's Honor
19826.0 / 10
D'Artagnan's Daughter
19945.6 / 10
A Thousand Billion Dollars
19826.9 / 10
Me and My Sister
20045.6 / 10
La Grande Bouffe
19737.2 / 10
I Married a Shadow
19836.4 / 10
The Bitch
19844.7 / 10
Fort Saganne
19846.0 / 10
A Few Days with Me
19885.8 / 10
Spoiled Children
19776.3 / 10
Lord of the Flies
19906.4 / 10
Music Box
19897.1 / 10
The Things of Life
19707.1 / 10
Mado
19766.5 / 10
A Simple Story
19786.0 / 10
Cesar and Rosalie
19727.2 / 10
Max and the Junkmen
19717.1 / 10
The Last Train
19736.7 / 10
First Desires
19834.3 / 10
Tess
19797.1 / 10
The Tenant
19767.6 / 10
Pirates
19866.3 / 10
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
19746.9 / 10
Strange Affair
19816.1 / 10
Le Guignolo
19806.1 / 10
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
19956.9 / 10
Coup de Torchon
19817.1 / 10
A Sunday in the Country
19847.0 / 10
My Other Husband
19835.9 / 10
Beau Pere
19816.6 / 10
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
19747.1 / 10
The Murdered House
19886.7 / 10
La Pirate
19844.6 / 10
A Bad Son
19807.6 / 10
Break of Dawn
20024.9 / 10
Scene of the Crime
19865.7 / 10
Buffet Froid
19797.0 / 10
Lost Angels
19896.1 / 10
Night Taxi
19937.8 / 10
Ponette
19967.4 / 10
The Prude
19864.9 / 10
L.627
19927.1 / 10
Creezy
19745.9 / 10
The Bottom Line
19765.4 / 10
Waiter!
19835.5 / 10
Happy Easter
19845.9 / 10
The Princess of Montpensier
20106.4 / 10
No Problem!
19755.4 / 10
Devil in the Flesh
19863.2 / 10
The French Minister
20136.0 / 10
Is This Reasonable?
19816.2 / 10
Cop or Hood
19796.4 / 10
Alice and Martin
19985.8 / 10
Le Choc
19825.2 / 10
The Adolescent
19794.4 / 10
The Boy Soldier
19817.4 / 10
A Brother...
19974.7 / 10
Drummer-Crab
19776.6 / 10
Every Time We Say Goodbye
19866.1 / 10
And They Call It Summer
20124.5 / 10
The Little Gangster
19906.5 / 10
Separate Bedrooms
19895.3 / 10
Madame Rosa
19777.0 / 10
Jealousy
19912.0 / 10
Widow's Walk
19875.3 / 10
Ennemis intimes
19870.0 / 10
The House of Jade
19885.5 / 10
The Carousel
19815.6 / 10
Lucie Aubrac
19976.5 / 10
Rendez-vous
19855.6 / 10
Next Summer
19856.1 / 10
Hotel America
19816.2 / 10
The North Star
19826.3 / 10
The Manhattan Project
19866.2 / 10
The Right to Love
19726.0 / 10
Funny Boy
19872.5 / 10
Sister Mary Explains It All
20014.2 / 10
The Two Crocodiles
19875.1 / 10
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
19777.0 / 10
La Travestie
19884.5 / 10
L'Homme aux yeux d'argent
19854.0 / 10
Charlie and His Two Chicks
19735.4 / 10
Two Friends
20155.9 / 10
Don't Touch the White Woman!
19745.5 / 10
A Friend of Vincent
19835.9 / 10
Marriage a la Mode
19736.8 / 10
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
20036.6 / 10
Harem
19854.5 / 10
Cookies
19756.3 / 10
Lovesick
19835.5 / 10
On Guard
19976.7 / 10
My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister
19864.4 / 10
The Tribe
19915.7 / 10
The Son
19735.1 / 10
The Widow Couderc
19716.9 / 10
The Last Woman
19766.1 / 10
Max & Jeremie
19926.2 / 10
Eve of Destruction
19914.5 / 10
The Girl on the Train
20095.8 / 10
The Witnesses
20076.4 / 10
Tess: From Novel to Screen
20040.0 / 10
Tess: The Experience
200410.0 / 10
Filming 'Tess'
20040.0 / 10
Quest for Fire
19817.0 / 10
Rodin
20174.7 / 10
The Innocents
19875.2 / 10
Seven Deaths by Prescription
19756.1 / 10
Uncovered
19945.6 / 10
The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea
19915.5 / 10
The Devil, Probably
19776.8 / 10
Ça n'arrive qu'à moi
19855.4 / 10
I Sent a Letter to My Love
19806.1 / 10
The Red and the Black
19975.7 / 10
Raja
20035.0 / 10
For Sasha
19916.1 / 10
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
20056.1 / 10
Mademoiselle
20016.1 / 10
The Temptation of Isabelle
19855.6 / 10
La Liberté en croupe
19704.3 / 10
Room Service
19924.0 / 10
My Favorite Season
19936.2 / 10
I Don't Kiss
19916.3 / 10
The Wings of the Dove
19815.2 / 10
Outlaws
19856.8 / 10
The French Detective
19756.8 / 10
Lancelot of the Lake
19746.3 / 10
Comédie !
19872.0 / 10
The Three-way Wedding
20105.0 / 10
Young Werther
19936.4 / 10
Tales of Ordinary Madness
19816.1 / 10
Liza
19726.0 / 10
The Little Apocalypse
19935.4 / 10
Sugar
19786.7 / 10
Bye Bye Monkey
19786.2 / 10
The Judge and the Assassin
19766.9 / 10
Iran: Days of Crisis
19913.5 / 10
L'Invité surprise
19893.8 / 10
As the Moon
19776.1 / 10
Marie, the Doll
19766.0 / 10
Borgo
20246.8 / 10
Icy Breasts
19745.8 / 10
The Medic
19795.4 / 10
La Femme flic
19806.2 / 10
André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
20197.0 / 10
Ghost Story
19816.0 / 10
A Bag of Marbles
19756.7 / 10
The Little Boy
19956.5 / 10
Mad Enough to Kill
19756.7 / 10
Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre
19895.4 / 10
Sincerely Charlotte
19853.3 / 10
The Cage
19755.9 / 10
The Cat
19717.4 / 10
K
19976.0 / 10
Dorothea's Revenge
19745.7 / 10
The Story of Piera
19835.8 / 10
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
19908.0 / 10
Death of a Corrupt Man
19776.5 / 10
Reunion
19896.5 / 10
Thieves
19966.2 / 10
Two Men in Town
19737.1 / 10
Choice of Arms
19816.5 / 10
Joshua Then and Now
19855.3 / 10
Call Me Elisabeth
20066.0 / 10
Le fils préféré
19946.6 / 10
C'est La Vie
19906.0 / 10
Barocco
19766.0 / 10
La fille des collines
19908.0 / 10
Seeking Asylum
19795.9 / 10
A Less Bad World
20046.2 / 10
French Provincial
19755.5 / 10
Strayed
20035.9 / 10
Mountain Pass
19785.3 / 10
The One I Loved
20250.0 / 10
Hellé
19724.6 / 10