Marin Marais - References in Film

References in Film

  • Marais and his music were featured in the film Tous les matins du monde (1991), an atmospheric, meticulously imagined life of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe. Marais' music figured prominently in that film, including his longer work Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris (1723). The role of Marin Marais is played by Gérard Depardieu as an old man and by Guillaume Depardieu as a young man.
  • A recording of the Sonnerie performed on a Fairlight synthesizer was used in the cult classic film Liquid Sky.

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