Philippe Sarde

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1948-06-21 (76 years old)

Place of Birth Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France

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 3.0.

Known For

Sound

2024
Borgo

as Original Music Composer

2019
André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema

as Original Music Composer

2017
Rodin

as Original Music Composer

2015
Two Friends

as Music

2013
The French Minister

as Original Music Composer

2012
And They Call It Summer

as Original Music Composer

2010
The Princess of Montpensier

as Original Music Composer

2010
The Three-way Wedding

as Original Music Composer

2009
The Girl on the Train

as Original Music Composer

2007
The Witnesses

as Original Music Composer

2006
Call Me Elisabeth

as Original Music Composer

2005
The Perfume of the Lady in Black

as Original Music Composer

2004
Me and My Sister

as Original Music Composer

2004
2003
Raja

as Original Music Composer

2002
Break of Dawn

as Original Music Composer

2001
Sister Mary Explains It All

as Original Music Composer

2001
Mademoiselle

as Original Music Composer

2000
Victoire, ou la douleur des femmes

as Original Music Composer

1998
Alice and Martin

as Original Music Composer

1997
A Brother...

as Music

1997
Lucie Aubrac

as Original Music Composer

1997
On Guard

as Original Music Composer

1997
K

as Original Music Composer

1996
Ponette

as Original Music Composer

1996
Thieves

as Original Music Composer

1995
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud

as Original Music Composer

1995
Uncovered

as Original Music Composer

1995
The Little Boy

as Original Music Composer

1994
D'Artagnan's Daughter

as Original Music Composer

1994
Le fils préféré

as Original Music Composer

1993
Night Taxi

as Music

1993
My Favorite Season

as Original Music Composer

1993
Young Werther

as Original Music Composer

1992
L.627

as Original Music Composer

1992
Max & Jeremie

as Music

1992
Room Service

as Original Music Composer

1991
Jealousy

as Original Music Composer

1991
The Tribe

as Music

1991
1991
The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea

as Original Music Composer

1991
For Sasha

as Original Music Composer

1991
I Don't Kiss

as Original Music Composer

1990
Lord of the Flies

as Original Music Composer

1990
The Little Gangster

as Original Music Composer

1990
C'est La Vie

as Original Music Composer

1990
La fille des collines

as Original Music Composer

1989
Music Box

as Original Music Composer

1989
Lost Angels

as Original Music Composer

1989
Separate Bedrooms

as Original Music Composer

1989
1989
Reunion

as Music

1988
The Bear

as Original Music Composer

1988
A Few Days with Me

as Original Music Composer

1988
1988
The House of Jade

as Original Music Composer

1988
La Travestie

as Music

1987
Widow's Walk

as Original Music Composer

1987
1987
Funny Boy

as Original Music Composer

1987
The Two Crocodiles

as Original Music Composer

1987
The Innocents

as Original Music Composer

1987
Comédie !

as Original Music Composer

1986
Pirates

as Original Music Composer

1986
Scene of the Crime

as Original Music Composer

1986
The Prude

as Original Music Composer

1986
1986
Every Time We Say Goodbye

as Original Music Composer

1986
The Manhattan Project

as Original Music Composer

1986
My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister

as Original Music Composer

1985
Rendez-vous

as Original Music Composer

1985
Next Summer

as Original Music Composer

1985
Harem

as Original Music Composer

1985
Ça n'arrive qu'à moi

as Original Music Composer

1985
The Temptation of Isabelle

as Original Music Composer

1985
Outlaws

as Original Music Composer

1985
1985
Joshua Then and Now

as Original Music Composer

1984
The Bitch

as Original Music Composer

1984
Fort Saganne

as Original Music Composer

1984
A Sunday in the Country

as Original Music Composer

1984
La Pirate

as Music

1984
Happy Easter

as Music

1983
I Married a Shadow

as Original Music Composer

1983
First Desires

as Original Music Composer

1983
My Other Husband

as Original Music Composer

1983
Waiter!

as Original Music Composer

1983
A Friend of Vincent

as Original Music Composer

1983
Lovesick

as Original Music Composer

1983
The Story of Piera

as Original Music Composer

1982
A Captain's Honor

as Original Music Composer

1982
A Thousand Billion Dollars

as Original Music Composer

1982
Le Choc

as Original Music Composer

1982
1981
Strange Affair

as Original Music Composer

1981
Coup de Torchon

as Original Music Composer

1981
Beau Pere

as Original Music Composer

1981
Is This Reasonable?

as Original Music Composer

1981
The Boy Soldier

as Original Music Composer

1981
The Carousel

as Music

1981
Hotel America

as Original Music Composer

1981
1981
The Wings of the Dove

as Original Music Composer

1981
Ghost Story

as Original Music Composer

1981
1980
Le Guignolo

as Original Music Composer

1980
A Bad Son

as Original Music Composer

1980
I Sent a Letter to My Love

as Original Music Composer

1980
La Femme flic

as Music

1979
Tess

as Original Music Composer

1979
Buffet Froid

as Original Music Composer

1979
Cop or Hood

as Original Music Composer

1979
1979
The Medic

as Music

1978
A Simple Story

as Original Music Composer

1978
Mountain Pass

as Music

1978
Sugar

as Original Music Composer

1978
Bye Bye Monkey

as Original Music Composer

1977
Spoiled Children

as Original Music Composer

1977
Drummer-Crab

as Original Music Composer

1977
Madame Rosa

as Music

1977
The Devil, Probably

as Original Music Composer

1977
As the Moon

as Original Music Composer

1977
Death of a Corrupt Man

as Original Music Composer

1976
Mado

as Original Music Composer

1976
The Tenant

as Original Music Composer

1976
The Bottom Line

as Original Music Composer

1976
The Last Woman

as Original Music Composer

1976
The Judge and the Assassin

as Original Music Composer

1976
Marie, the Doll

as Original Music Composer

1976
Barocco

as Original Music Composer

1975
No Problem!

as Original Music Composer

1975
Cookies

as Original Music Composer

1975
The French Detective

as Original Music Composer

1975
1975
Mad Enough to Kill

as Original Music Composer

1975
The Cage

as Original Music Composer

1974
The Watchmaker of St. Paul

as Original Music Composer

1974
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others

as Original Music Composer

1974
Creezy

as Original Music Composer

1974
Don't Touch the White Woman!

as Original Music Composer

1974
Lancelot of the Lake

as Original Music Composer

1974
Icy Breasts

as Original Music Composer

1974
1973
1973
The Last Train

as Original Music Composer

1973
Charlie and His Two Chicks

as Original Music Composer

1973
Marriage a la Mode

as Original Music Composer

1973
The Son

as Original Music Composer

1973
Two Men in Town

as Original Music Composer

1972
Cesar and Rosalie

as Original Music Composer

1972
The Right to Love

as Original Music Composer

1972
Hellé

as Music

1972
Liza

as Original Music Composer

1971
Max and the Junkmen

as Original Music Composer

1971
The Widow Couderc

as Original Music Composer

1971
The Cat

as Original Music Composer

1970
The Things of Life

as Original Music Composer

Actor

1976
The Tenant

as Man staring at Trelkovsky in the movie theatre (uncredited)