His personal instrument was piano and he never did learn to conduct. I learned that Sarde's mother had been an opera singer and that he had studied harmony, counterpoint, fugue and composition at the Paris Conservatory with Noel Gallon.
All of these made impressive soundtrack albums because the themes were compelling, the orchestral details were sophisticated and literate, and the scores seemed to hold together, no matter what the musical genre.
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Along with Michel Legrand, Vladimir Cosma, Antoine Duhamel, and Georges Delerue, Sarde quickly became my favorite living French screen composer and that sprang from my strong admiration for his vigorous, detailed and original score to the 1973 Granier-Deferre film "Le Train" – so carefully shaped, cue by cue, to its own internal logic, full of pulsing locomotion, rolling figures, then static holding figures, then barreling on down the tracks, all in the same minor key mode that tied the whole score together (learning only later that Sarde had composed the score in advance of the film and had then participated in the process of applying the film to the score).Īt the same time I was admiring "Le Train", I was also learning his impressive half atonal/half folksong score to the historical thriller "Le Juge et l'Assassin" (1975, scored for string quartet, accordion, harp and the beautifully gravelly voice of Jean-Roger Caussimon) and his half baroque/half jazz music to the police action comedy "Flic ou Voyou" (1978, scored for the Gabrielli Quartet versus jazzmen Chet Baker and Ron Carter) and his subtle orchestral setting for the Irish ensemble The Chieftains in 1977's "The Purple Taxi". I call him enigmatic because, right from the beginning, he seemed to present contradictions.
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And indeed his scoring over the years has seemed more musical than cinematic, more compositionally interesting than narrative (which is what movie scores usually try to be). Worldwide, he is probably heard more via soundtrack discs than through any large audiences seeing his films. Along with lasting relationships with directors like Sautet, Tavernier, Polanski and Annaud, Sarde gradually made inroads to the mainstream Hollywood film industry including an Oscar nomination for the 1979 music to "Tess". In October 2018, French composer Philippe Sarde receives the Film Fest Gent World Soundtrack Lifetime Achievement Award together with a tribute concert of some of his nearly fifty years of screen music. The Enigma, Philippe Sarde : 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award at Film Fest Gent Antonio Cerutti (aka the divisional commissioner Stanislas Borowitz) But the corrupt police inspectors Rey and Massard, on the pay of Volfoni, absolutely want to harm him.
Sent to Nice to struggle against the Mafia and enquire on a murder of a notoriously corrupt commissioner, he changes his identity into a thug named Antonio Cerruti to trigger a gang war between the two biggest local sponsors, Théodore Musard ("l'Auvergnat") and Achille Volfoni ("le Corse"), and discovers a police organization with the mafia of the town. Stanislas Borowitz is a divisional commissioner from the IGPN ( Inspection Générale de la Police Nationale) who uses particularly expeditious methods to counteract the "ripoux" (French term for "corrupt cops"). It's loosely based on the novel L'Inspecteur de la mer by Michel Grisolia. Cop or Hood ( French: Flic ou voyou) is a 1979 French crime and action film directed by Georges Lautner.
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