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.
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Filmography
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Movies 214
self 5
TV Shows 3
Borgo (2024)
Juliette dans son bain (2022)
André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema (2019)
A Faithful Man (2018)
Rodin (2017)
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary (2017)
Two Friends (2015)
Young Couples (2013)
La pazza della porta accanto: conversazione con Alda Merini (2013)
The French Minister (2013)
And They Call It Summer (2012)
The Princess of Montpensier (2010)
Streamfield, les carnets noirs (2010)
The Matchmaker (2010)
The Three-way Wedding (2010)
The Girl on the Train (2009)
Symphonie métallique (2008)
Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future (2007)
Once Upon a Time... 'Tess' (2007)
The Witnesses (2007)
Call Me Elisabeth (2006)
The Great Meaulnes (2006)
The Perfume of the Lady in Black (2005)
Me and My Sister (2004)
A Less Bad World (2004)
Filming 'Tess' (2004)
Tess: The Experience (2004)
Tess: From Novel to Screen (2004)
Raja (2003)
Strayed (2003)
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (2003)
Un film et son époque (2003)
Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic (2003)
Break of Dawn (2002)
Sister Mary Explains It All (2001)
Mademoiselle (2001)
Princesses (2000)
Return to Algiers (2000)
Je suis vivante et je vous aime (1998)
Alice and Martin (1998)
The Red and the Black (1997)
The Red and the Black (1997)
On Guard (1997)
A Brother... (1997)
K (1997)
Lucie Aubrac (1997)
Ponette (1996)
Thieves (1996)
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
Dis-moi oui... (1995)
The Little Boy (1995)
Uncovered (1995)
Le fils préféré (1994)
D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994)
Night Taxi (1993)
My Favorite Season (1993)
Young Werther (1993)
The Little Apocalypse (1993)
Max & Jeremie (1992)
The Voice (1992)
L.627 (1992)
Room Service (1992)
I Don't Kiss (1991)
The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea (1991)
Jalousie (1991)
For Sasha (1991)
The Tribe (1991)
Eve of Destruction (1991)
The Little Gangster (1990)
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries (1990)
Lord of the Flies (1990)
La fille des collines (1990)
C'est La Vie (1990)
Music Box (1989)
Chambre à part (1989)
Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre (1989)
L'Invité surprise (1989)
Reunion (1989)
Lost Angels (1989)
Devil in the Flesh (1989)
The Color of the Wind (1988)
The House of Jade (1988)
The Bear (1988)
L'Argent (1988)
A Few Days with Me (1988)
La Travestie (1988)
Nailcruncher (1988)
The Murdered House (1988)
Poker (1988)
The Innocents (1987)
Engagements of the Heart (1987)
Ennemis intimes (1987)
Widow's Walk (1987)
The Two Crocodiles (1987)
Comédie ! (1987)
Funny Boy (1987)
The Murderous Months of April (1987)
State of Grace (1986)
The Prude (1986)
Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)
Private Tuition (1986)
The Manhattan Project (1986)
Scene of the Crime (1986)
Pirates (1986)
My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister (1986)
L'Homme aux yeux d'argent (1985)
Harem (1985)
The Temptation of Isabelle (1985)
Rendez-vous (1985)
Outlaws (1985)
The Cowboy (1985)
Sincerely Charlotte (1985)
Ça n'arrive qu'à moi (1985)
Next Summer (1985)
Joshua Then and Now (1985)
Happy Easter (1984)
The Bitch (1984)
La Pirate (1984)
Fort Saganne (1984)
A Sunday in the Country (1984)
First Desires (1983)
Waiter! (1983)
A Friend of Vincent (1983)
My Other Husband (1983)
Stella (1983)
Une jeunesse (1983)
Lovesick (1983)
I Married a Shadow (1983)
The Story of Piera (1983)
A Captain's Honor (1982)
Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands! (1982)
Le Choc (1982)
The North Star (1982)
A Thousand Billion Dollars (1982)
Strange Affair (1981)
Ghost Story (1981)
Quest for Fire (1981)
Hotel America (1981)
Coup de Torchon (1981)
Beau Pere (1981)
Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981)
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed (1981)
Choice of Arms (1981)
The Carousel (1981)
The Wings of the Dove (1981)
Is This Reasonable? (1981)
The Boy Soldier (1981)
A Bad Son (1980)
I Sent a Letter to My Love (1980)
Le Guignolo (1980)
La Femme flic (1980)
Buffet Froid (1979)
The Medic (1979)
Seeking Asylum (1979)
Tess (1979)
Cop or Hood (1979)
The Adolescent (1979)
The Key Is in the Door (1978)
A Simple Story (1978)
Mountain Pass (1978)
Sugar (1978)
These Sorcerers Are Mad (1978)
Bye Bye Monkey (1978)
Death of a Corrupt Man (1977)
Drummer-Crab (1977)
Madame Rosa (1977)
Spoiled Children (1977)
As the Moon (1977)
The Devil, Probably (1977)
The Purple Taxi (1977)
Violette & François (1977)
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff (1977)
Barocco (1976)
Mado (1976)
Marie, the Doll (1976)
The Bottom Line (1976)
The Tenant (1976)
The Last Woman (1976)
The Judge and the Assassin (1976)
A Bag of Marbles (1975)
The French Detective (1975)
Seven Deaths by Prescription (1975)
French Provincial (1975)
Cookies (1975)
Mad Enough to Kill (1975)
No Problem! (1975)
The Cage (1975)
A Happy Divorce (1975)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975)
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others (1974)
Icy Breasts (1974)
Dorothea's Revenge (1974)
Lancelot of the Lake (1974)
Creezy (1974)
Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974)
The Watchmaker of St. Paul (1974)
La Confession d'un enfant du siècle (1974)
Charlie and His Two Chicks (1973)
The Last Train (1973)
Two Men in Town (1973)
Man in the Trunk (1973)
The Heavenly Bodies (1973)
Marriage a la Mode (1973)
La Grande Bouffe (1973)
The Son (1973)
Cesar and Rosalie (1972)
The Right to Love (1972)
Liza (1972)
Hellé (1972)
The Widow Couderc (1971)
The Cat (1971)
Max and the Junkmen (1971)
La Liberté en croupe (1970)
Sortie de secours (1970)
The Things of Life (1970)
La nuit ensoleillée
Iran: Days of Crisis
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Known ForSound
GenderMale
Birthday1948-06-21 (75 years old)
Birth PlaceNeuilly-sur-Seine, France
Height
MotherAndrée Gabriel
SiblingsAlain Sarde
CitizenshipsFrance
AwardsOfficer of Arts and Letters, César Award for Best Music Written for a Film
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