Philippe Sarde

Philippe Sarde is a French film composer, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He studied harmony, counterpoint, fugue and composition at the Paris Conservatory with Noël Gallon. His long partnership with director Claude Sautet began with Les Choses de la vie, which set the course of a career spent mostly in French cinema from the 1970s onward. Sarde scored many more films for Sautet and worked often with Bertrand Tavernier, Pierre Granier-Deferre, André Téchiné, Jacques Doillon and Georges Lautner.