Tous les Matins du Monde movie storyline. 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. In his grief he builds a small house in his garden into which he moves to dedicate his life to music and his two young daughters Madeleine and Toinette, avoiding the outside world. Rumor about him and his music is widespread, and even reaches to the court of Louis XIV, who wants him at his court in Lully’s orchestra, but Monsieur de Sainte Colombe refuses. One day a young man, Marin Marais, comes to see him with a request, he wants to be taught how to play the viola.
Tous les matins du monde (English translation: All the Mornings of the World) is a 1991 French film based on the book of the same name. Set during the reign of Louis XIV, the film shows the eminent musician Marin Marais looking back on his young life when he tried to become a pupil of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, and features much music of the period, especially that for the viola da gamba. The title of the film is explained towards the end of the film; « Tous les matins du monde sont sans retour » (“all the mornings of the world never return”) spoken by Marais in chapter XXVI of Quignard’s novel when he learns of the death of Madeleine.
Tous les Matins du Monde (1992)
Directed by: Alain Corneau
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Anne Brochet, Caroline Sihol, Guillaume Depardieu, Carole Richert, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Myriam Boyer
Screenplay by: Pascal Quignard, Alain Corneau
Production Design by: Bernard Vézat
Cinematography by: Yves Angelo
Film Editing by: Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte
Costume Design by: Corinne Jorry
Set Decoration by: Françoise Doré
Music by: Jordi Savall
Distributed by: Koch-Lorber Films
Release Date: November 16, 1992
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