| [filmlover-l] Movie this week: Tous les
matins du monde (All the mornings of the world) |
Sunday, April 17, 2011
10:20:43 PM |
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tbco@mtu.edu |
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filmlover-l@mtu.edu |
Hello everyone,
This week, we are showing a French movie, "Tous les matins du monde
(All the Mornings of the World)" directed by Alain Corneau.
(more details below).
Please feel free to pass the message around
and invite your friends. Hope you can join us.
Regards,
Tom Co
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Title: Tous les matins du monde
(All the Mornings of the World)
Date and Time: April 20, Wednesday, 6:30-9:00pm
Place: 308 Cooper Ave, Hancock
Director: Alain Corneau
Partial List of Actors:
Jean-Pierre Marielle
Anne Brochet
Guillaume Depardieu
Carole Richert
Michel Bouquet
Gérard Depardieu
US Rating: unrated (I think it is PG13 to R)
Language: French (with English subtitles)
Length: 115 mins
Media: DVD, color
Summary: (from www.dvdverdict.com)
"Marais discovers that Sainte-Colombe
is on a personal quest to push beyond
the technical constraints of music in
order to achieve a soulful though
fleeting expression of his enormous pain
and loneliness. The young man also develops
an interest in Madeleine, the older of
Sainte-Colombe's two daughters. The old
master's demands that Marais put aside ego
and devote himself to music in its purest
form prove impossible for the ambitious young
man. Neither is his bond to Madeleine strong
enough to keep him on the Sainte-Colombe
estate. Marais sets off for Paris and a
position in the king's court.
"Years later, an older Marais returns to his
aged master, fat on rich living and saggy
from exhaustion. It's too late for the
respected and established Marais to make
amends to Madeleine, but perhaps he can
demonstrate to Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe
that the old man's efforts were not in vain,
that there is another musician in the world
who seeks pure and truthful music."
My Comments:
I first saw this movie a long time ago, and
it still has a lasting effect on my outlook
towards art, and music in particular. I
still play the CD soundtrack often... it
is hauntingly beautiful. Well directed and acted,
I liked its contemplation about art...although
more on the somber side.
