List Price: $34.98You Pay Only: $31.49 You Save: $3.49 (10%)Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Koch International
EAN: 0741952307396
Format: Color, Content/Copy-Protected CD, Dolby, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Koch Lorber Films
Manufacturer: Koch Lorber Films
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Koch Lorber Films
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 07, 2006
Running Time: 200 minutes
Sales Rank: 13908
Studio: Koch Lorber Films
Theatrical Release Date: 1991
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Description:
In the dazzling tradition of Amadeus, Tous les Matins du Monde is a seductive tale of music and passion set in provocative 17th century France. Academy Award® nominee Gérard Depardieu (Best Actor – Cyrano de Bergerac) stars in a fascinating story filled with romance, lust, desire, devotion, revenge and intrigue. A reclusive composer and his two beautiful daughters’ lives are forever changed by a flamboyant young student who enters their lives. See for yourself why critics and audiences alike are applauding this magnificent film and celebrated winner of 7 César Awards including Best Picture!
Background on the Film The film is the result of the collaboration between novelist Pascal Quignard, director Alain Corneau and musician Jordi Savall who wanted to do a film on music. Quignard wrote and adapted the book to a screenplay.
The film was a phenomenal success and sold 2 million tickets in the first year and was distributed in 31 countries. The soundtrack was certified platinum (500,000 copies) and made Jordi Savall an international star.
Amazon.com essential video:
GĂ©rard Depardieu plays a court composer at Versailles whose sense of artistic emptiness causes him to reflect upon his old music teacher (Jean-Pierre Marielle), a man who taught him more than music but whom he ultimately betrayed. (The younger version of Depardieu's character is portrayed by the actor's son, Guillaume.) Alain Corneau's gorgeous 1991 film has a slow, deliberative air about it, with little dialogue and a painterly look (shot by cinematographer-director Yves Angelo, maker of Colonel Chabert) that paradoxically inspires both excitement and meditation. A period costume piece that chooses to understate pageantry for ideas and emotions, this film is quite special. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - a parable of grief and ambition
I didn't realize as I watched the film the first time that it was inspired by actual lives -- Sainte-Colombe and Marin Marais are important figures in the history of music -- nor was it clear to me, until I did some research, how the film connected with important theological controversies of the 17th century. Hearing that Sainte-Colombe was "a reformer," I took that to mean that he was a Calvinist and thus was confused to see him, in a later scene, in what was clearly a Catholic church. (The film makes me want to know more about Jansenism, about which until now all I knew was that it was linked with an extreme and gloomy asceticism. Until now I hadn't thought of it as a stream of Catholicism profoundly influenced of Calvinism.)
It was striking to see how Sainte-Colombe's form of Christianity, as depicted in the film, lacked a paschal dimension. He was a prisoner of his grief and found a degree of comfort only in the occasional apparitions of his wife, while being unable to express love to his two daughters or indeed to express love to anyone. As a result one tragedy gives birth to another -- his daughter's Madeline's entombment in self-loathing and grief leading finally to her suicide, and the bottomless sorrow of Marin Marais, who only too late realizes that his ambitions so overwhelmed him that he abandoned the one person who loved him unreservedly.
I suppose not much of the story is true to the actual lives of those we meet in the film, about which so little is known, ... Read More
Rating: - "In Search of Perfect Sound"
"For the time before we were born, before we breathed, before we saw light."
I first saw this film in the early '90's shortly after it was released in Los Angeles. I recently viewed it again. The film's message is a profound comment on the life and spirit and gift of music and the great importance of those who teach and guide us. The story is a metaphor for the passion of the music. It paints a picture of extremes. It is also a metaphor for listening or failing to listen. It is not a factual account of the life of Sainte-Colombe as little is known for certainty about Sainte-Colombe's life. See the online research of Jonathan Dunford for more information.
This, however, is a review of the bonus feature documentary interview with Jordi Savall, "In Search of Perfect Sound" which accompanies this disc. I have watched this interview a number of times over the past few years and I am always inspired by it and take something new from it with each viewing/listening. I do not think this interview has been discussed in detail by the other reviewers. To my thinking, the interview, alone, is worth the price of the DVD.
In addition to discussing his work on this film, Jordi Savall discusses the role of the musician in listening, subtlety interpreting and bringing new life to every performance of a piece of music. He discusses the interpretation and play of Early Music, characterizing the music as vivacious and alive versus sterile and rigid. He discusses his ... Read More
Rating: - Music for your soul or for the fame and fortune?
The central theme of this movie is what is music for? To master Sainte Colombo, it is for expression and exploration of the soul, where words cannot go there, music as a meditation and communing with the sorrows and passion. To the young Marin Marias it is a means to fame, fortune, success, a job in the king's court.
The two viewpoints are interconnected when the young Marin Marias enters the lives of Sainte Colombe and his two daughters. The family had been in perpetual mourning for the death of Mrs. Sainte Colombe, with the father retiring into a garden hut to commune with his music and ghostly visitations from his dead wife. The daughters were left to fend for themselves, and the appearance of a young man sparks their interest. After initially refusing to take him in as a student, he relents to his daughters. One thing leads to another, and after using both the hospitality of Sainte Colombe, and leaving his elderly daughter broken and ruined, Marin Marais gets what he wants which is a position as musician in the king's court.
But all of the fame, fortune and glamour cannot satisfy him, so he returns to search out his old teacher, to find the great secret meaning of music. The master asks him what music means, and Marin guesses again and again without finding the answer. Finally he gives up and has a final lesson (first lesson from Master Sainte Colombe's point of view). And he has learned that music goes beyond words, and into a realm beyond touching death and man's ... Read More
Rating:  - What else to say?
After reading 40 reviews, and studying a portion of the music myself, I find there is a sense of unrelieved sadness in this film. You WANT there to be some actual living communication. But I believe the point of the film lies in the daughters' sung duet near the beginning. The chanson "Il etait une Jeune Fillette" was one of the most popular songs of the time, translated into 5 languages over 2 centuries. It deals with the desire of a girl to die because her parents have sent her to a Convent rather than allow her to seek her true love, all for their own status in the world (and maybe the next as well). The notion of the imposition of parental will on offspring is a timeless issue in therapy and in creative work, and the inability to say what you feel is close behind. Even aside from the beautiful, expressive musical harmonies, perhaps the point of the story is how poor and inexpressive the harmonies can be between people.
Rating: - tous les matins...
Since I bought it as a present I did not see it, but no doubts it is one of the best films I have ever seen.
Browse for similar items by category:
|
