All the Mornings of the World (1991) Tous les matins du monde (original title)

Director:

Alain Corneau

Writers:

Pascal Quignard (based on the novel by)
Alain Corneau (adaptation) ...
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Release Date:

18 December 1991 (France)

Genre:

Biography | Drama | Music | Romance

Plot:

It's late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away...

Plot Keywords:

Sainte Colombe | Court | Viola Da Gamba | 17th Century | Viola

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 9 wins & 6 nominations

Cast

Jean-Pierre Marielle	...	Monsieur de Sainte Colombe
Gérard Depardieu	...	Marin Marais
Anne Brochet	...	Madeleine
Guillaume Depardieu	...	Young Marin Marais
Carole Richert	...	Toinette
Michel Bouquet	...	Baugin
Jean-Claude Dreyfus	...	Abbe Mathieu
Yves Gasc	...	Caignet
Yves Lambrecht	...	Charbonnières
Jean-Marie Poirier	...	Monsieur de Bures
Myriam Boyer	...	Guignotte
Violaine Lacroix	...	Young Madeleine
Nadège Teron	...	Young Toinette
Caroline Sihol	...	Mme. de Sainte Colombe
Philippe Duclos	...	Brunet (voice)
Yves Gourvil	...	Lequieu (voice)

Directed by
Alain Corneau

Writing credits
Pascal Quignard		(based on the novel by)
Alain Corneau		(adaptation) and
Pascal Quignard		(adaptation)
Pascal Quignard		(dialogue)

Produced by
Raphael Berdugo	....	co-producer
Jean-Louis Livi	....	producer
Bernard Marescot	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Jordi Savall

Cinematography by
Yves Angelo

Film Editing by
Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte

Production Design by
Bernard Vézat

Set Decoration by
Françoise Doré

Costume Design by
Corinne Jorry

Makeup Department
Jean-Pierre Berroyer	....	hair stylist
Marianne Collette	....	assistant makeup artist
Jean-Pierre Eychenne	....	makeup artist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jérôme Navarro	....	assistant director
Hiromi Rollin	....	assistant director

Art Department
Jean Marc Druais	....	assistant art director
Thomas Godelle	....	construction coordinator
Jean Gouttebaron	....	carpenter
Daniele Sauge Lagrange	....	assistant art director (as Daniele Lagrange)
Raymond Schmidt	....	painter

Sound Department
Bernard Chaumeil	....	boom operator
Pierre Gamet	....	sound
Gérard Lamps	....	sound re-recording mixer
Anne Le Campion	....	sound mixer
François Lepeuple	....	foley artist
Laurent Lévy	....	foley artist

Camera and Electrical Department
Benoît Barbier	....	still photographer
Alain Bolle	....	camera operator
Laurent Fleutot	....	camera operator
Gil Fontbonne	....	key grip
Jean-Yves Freess	....	grip
Jean-Michel Gageat	....	electrician
Michel LeFrançois	....	electrician
Richard Melloul	....	still photographer
Denis Moncel	....	electrician
Luc Roux	....	still photographer
Richard Vidal	....	electrician

Casting Department
Pascale Béraud	....	extras casting director

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Gil Noir	....	costumer
Hélène Robin	....	costumer

Editorial Department
Emmanuelle Lalande	....	assistant editor
Eric LeGarçon	....	assistant editor
Florence Ricard	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Jean-Louis Charbonnier	....	music consultant
Christophe Coin	....	musician: viola da gamba
Le Concert des Nations	....	musicians
Montserrat Figueras	....	performer: soprano
Jéôme Hantaï	....	performed by: Viole de gambe
Pierre Hantaï	....	performed by: Clavecin et orgue
Maria-Cristina Kiehr	....	performer: soprano
Paul Lavergne	....	soundtrack album producer
Rolf Lislevand	....	musician: theorbe
Jordi Savall	....	conductor
Jordi Savall	....	musician: viola da gamba
Pierre Verany	....	music recording producer

Other crew
Jean Cirla	....	location manager
Claude Davy	....	press relations
Jean-Christophe Hedier	....	press relations
Valérie Leblanc	....	location manager
Alexandre Putman	....	location manager
Hélène Sébillotte	....	script supervisor (as Helen Othnin-Girard)

Production Companies

• Film Par Film (co-production)
• DD Productions (co-production) (as D.D. Productions)
• Divali Films (co-production)
• Societé d'Exploitation et de Distribution de Films (SEDIF) (co-production) (as SEDIF)
• FR3 Films Production (co-production)
• Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) (participation)
• Canal+ (participation)
• Paravision International S.A. (associate production)

Distributors

• Bac Films (1991) (France) (theatrical) (as BAC Films)
• TF1 Vidéo (2000) (France) (DVD)
• StudioCanal (2009) (France) (DVD) (HD new master) (PAL)
• Cineplex Odeon Films (1992) (Canada) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Musidora Films (Spain) (theatrical)
• October Films (1992) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Abril Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)
• Atlantic Film (2010) (Finland) (DVD)
• Cineplex-Odeon Home Video (1994) (Canada) (VHS)
• Kinokuniya (2010) (Japan) (DVD) (HD new master)
• Koch Lorber Films (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• MCA Home Video (1994) (Canada) (VHS)
• Touchstone Home Video (1994) (USA) (video)
• Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (Argentina) (VHS)
• Video Film Express (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Éditions Gallimard  book publisher
• Galerie dorée de la Banque de France, La  filmed at: Les scènes de salon Louis XV ont été tournées dans
• Auvidis  soundtrack (as Auvidis Valois)
• Bermans  costumes
• Traonouez (Paris)  costumes (as Traonouez)

Also Known As:

"Tous les matins du monde" - France (original title)

Runtime:

115 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Finland:K-8 | France:U | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | UK:12 | Iceland:L | Australia:M | Portugal:M/12 (Qualidade)

Filming Locations:

Abbey of Moutier-d'Ahun, Moutier-d'Ahun, Creuse, France

Company:

Film Par Film

Quotes:

[first lines]
[in French, using English subtitles]
Musician:Open your mouth so we can hear you. I can't follow you. You're not listening. You're going too fast. Let's start over with the first notes of the song. Stop! The Master has signalled. The Master would speak. Speak, Master.
Marin Marais:Each note should end dying.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in England, My England (1995)

Soundtrack:

Fantasie en mi mineur

A Complat Artistic Triumph

'Tous les matins du monde' is more an experience than a movie. The brainchild of director Alain Corneau, writer Pascal Quignard, and musician Jordi Savall this film integrates the visual with the historicodramatic and the music that created the idea and bathes it in the most sensuously beautiful cinematography of a period (the 17th century) by Yves Angelo who is given the sets and design and costumes by Bernard Vézat and Corinne Jorry that create image after image of masterful still life. The total integration of the work of these masters is the plinth on which the actors offer the memory of two famous composers in French classical music history.

Saint-Colombe (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is a viol player and composer whose wife (Caroline Sihol) dies young leaving him to raise his two daughters young Madeleine (Violaine Lacroix) and young Toinette (Nadège Teron)whom he teaches his art of viol de gamba performance while sequestering himself and his girls in the countryside. Into their garden comes the young handsome son of a shoemaker, Marin Marais (Guillaume Depardieu, the son of Gerard Depardieu) who commits to learning the viol and eventually becomes a court musician only to fall in love with Saint-Colombe's elder daughter Madeleine (Anne Brochet) whom he eventually leaves for the glories of the court. As an adult (Gérard Depardieu pere) he realizes his error and returns to the Saint-Colombe sanctuary where he learns the true meaning of music as being something beyond words and thus something beyond human.

In the course of this quiet little film and in the dramatic lighting of the production design we hear the music of Couperin, Lully, as well as compositions by Marais and Saint-Colombe. Jordi Savall supplies the incidental music that binds these works and offers the viol playing together with a talented group of musicians. The story is small, the dialogue sparse (primarily Depardieu pere narrating his experience as Marais) and for the novice the film could be slow. But the incandescent beauty both visually and aurally make this film a work of art that has not been equaled since its appearance on the scene in 1991. It is a treasure. Highly recommended. Grady Harp