9/10
The short-lived and the musical sorrowed happiness
9 September 2003
It requires some skill for a "basic french" to dare talk about this wonderful film. The genuine hero is the cello ( Jordi SAVAL who plays the viol))and so the music. Monsieur de Sainte Colombe is a great musician as a famous player. Marais( the two DEPARDIEU) desire both his art and one of his daughter. She became pregnant before to die! Marais must choose between the solitude as the father's austerity and the glory at the King's court!(Louis XIV) This mental split is the spiritual suspense of the magnificent film of Pascal Quignard, writer of the novel and the challenge of Alain Cornaud.Who dislike this does not have any soul, may be!
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