
Philippe Sarde
Sound
1948-06-21 - Present
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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Credits

Beau Pere

Borgo

Widow's Walk

The Bear

First Desires

Tess

Pirates

Lord of the Flies

Ghost Story

The Tenant

The Things of Life

Fort Saganne

The Manhattan Project

The French Minister

Liza

The Last Woman

Strayed

D'Artagnan's Daughter

Two Men in Town

K

The Little Gangster

Buffet Froid

Rendez-vous

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud

Le Guignolo

Music Box

A Thousand Billion Dollars

The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea

The Last Train

Death of a Corrupt Man

Uncovered

Max and the Junkmen

The Princess of Montpensier

Cesar and Rosalie

Coup de Torchon

Don't Touch the White Woman!

Cop or Hood

The Story of Piera

Me and My Sister

Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others

The French Detective

The Devil, Probably

On Guard

Spoiled Children

Thieves

Ponette

The Bitch

Cookies

A Few Days with Me

A Sunday in the Country

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

C'est La Vie

The Cat

L.627

Alice and Martin

Icy Breasts

I Don't Kiss

Mado

The Judge and the Assassin

Lost Angels

Lancelot of the Lake

Is This Reasonable?

Lovesick

The Wings of the Dove

Marie, the Doll

And They Call It Summer

Creezy

I Married a Shadow

Scene of the Crime

A Simple Story

The Girl on the Train

The Widow Couderc

Lucie Aubrac

The Bottom Line

The Witnesses

Every Time We Say Goodbye

A Bad Son

Bye Bye Monkey

Sugar

Le Choc

Waiter!

Barocco

Hotel America

Harem

My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister

Rodin

Raja

Sister Mary Explains It All

The House of Jade

For Sasha

Mad Enough to Kill

Birgit Haas Must Be Killed

I Sent a Letter to My Love

Mountain Pass

A Friend of Vincent

Ça n'arrive qu'à moi

Break of Dawn

No Problem!

The Innocents

The Right to Love

A Less Bad World

Le fils préféré

My Other Husband

The Two Crocodiles

The Little Boy

Drummer-Crab

The Temptation of Isabelle

A Captain's Honor

André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema

Call Me Elisabeth

The Cage

The Boy Soldier

The Son

Strange Affair

Outlaws

Hellé

As the Moon

The Prude

Next Summer

Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future

My Favorite Season

The Three-way Wedding

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

Mademoiselle

La fille des collines

Joshua Then and Now

Room Service

Seeking Asylum

Young Werther

Comédie !

Funny Boy

The One I Loved

Marriage a la Mode

Separate Bedrooms

Charlie and His Two Chicks

Jealousy