Philippe Sarde
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Born 1948-06-21
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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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.
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The Adolescent
First Desires
Lord of the Flies
Beau Pere
Tess
The Tenant
Quest for Fire
La Grande Bouffe
Pirates
Ghost Story
Borgo
Le Guignolo
Fort Saganne
A Brother...
A Faithful Man
For Sasha
The Bear
Cesar and Rosalie
L'Invité surprise
Rodin
Two Men in Town
The Last Woman
D'Artagnan's Daughter
The Cat
Lancelot of the Lake
Max and the Junkmen
Rendez-vous
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
Eve of Destruction
The Cage
The Last Train
Dorothea's Revenge
The French Detective
The French Minister
Music Box
Every Time We Say Goodbye
The Princess of Montpensier
Coup de Torchon
Cop or Hood
Tales of Ordinary Madness
The Manhattan Project
L.627
La Travestie
The Red and the Black
L'Argent
Iran: Days of Crisis
La Pirate
Buffet Froid
The Things of Life
Death of a Corrupt Man
Me and My Sister
The Red and the Black
Thieves
Strayed
A Thousand Billion Dollars
Happy Easter
The Widow Couderc
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