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The film, considered one of the best films about musicians, is a French film directed by Alain Cornault “All the mornings of the world” / Toous les matins du monde, 1991. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Pascal Kignard and tells about real musicians and composers who lived in the distant 17th century, who played the viola (viola da gamba), - Marena Mare (Guillaume and Gerard Depardieu) and Jean Saint-Colombe (Jean-Pierre Marielle). The narration is conducted on behalf of Mara - he tells his students about his teacher, against the background of which now, in the later years, he sees himself insignificant in comparison with him. Saint-Colombe was a talented composer and especially a musician, but he led the life of a hermit, finally closing in after the death of his wife, whom he loved very much. He brings up quite rigidly, although he seems to love them, two daughters, teaching them to play the viola and them, occasionally they perform concerts, while he categorically refuses to perform in front of the king and become a court musician. One day a young boy Maren Maret comes to them (in his youth he is played by Guillaume Depardieu), whom his previous teachers considered too talented for them, sending him to St. Colombe, who, although not immediately, still undertakes to teach him, but noticing in him a tendency to advance to the court, kicks him out, breaking his instrument. Here Mara comes to the rescue of the eldest daughter of St. Colomba Madeleine, who fell in love with him, she offers to teach him everything that her father taught, and they overhear him playing in a specially built hut for him. But life at the court delays Mara, he ends relations with Madeleine, for her it is a tragedy, which accordingly ends, but it does not pass without a trace for Mare himself. He begins to secretly visit St. Colomb for three years, once discovering his presence, and he finally agrees to recognize him as his disciple.
There is a lot of Baroque music in the film, including the composers mentioned in the film. “All the mornings of the world never come back” was a phrase Mare said when he heard of Madeleine’s death. I liked the movie, but I would recommend it only to classical music lovers.