Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

MartinHafer This film consists of the memories of the famous musician, Marin Marais (Gerard Depardieu), reminiscing about an even greater musician, Monsieur de Sainte Colombe. Now understand, these were real French musicians from the 17th and 18th century, but apparently very, very little is known about Colombe and the story is from a novel consisting of lots of conjecture by Pascal Quignard...so don't accept this as the gospel!Monsieur de Sainte Colombe (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is a very strange man--an angry weirdo, certainly. His wife died young and unexpectedly and his reaction is odd to say the least. He gave up his work and retreated to his shabby country home with his two young daughters. The home is a rather joyless place though he eventually taught his daughters to play the Viol de Gambon...a seven-stringed musical instrument popular during this era. Over time, they became brilliant at playing and they established quite the reputation...so much so that he is invited to court to play for King Louis XIV. But he is an oddball and so he steadfastly refuses...only playing a yearly concert for locals and otherwise living his simple life. Into this very mundane world comes a young Marin Marais (played here by Gerard's real life son, Guillaume). He begs Colombe to take him on as a student...something he never did before, aside from teaching his two daughters. And, briefly they work together though it ultimately ends in tragedy...and what that is you'll just have to see for yourself.If you are wanting to see a happy and uplifting movie, this is NOT for you. Much of the film is very somber and depressing, though the music is also quite lovely. However, it is well made though I am apprehensive to heartily recommend it for two reasons. First, it's not exactly a fun film and is incredibly somber...and some may now want to see such a movie. Second, the film does much to make Marais look like a total jerk...and is that hardly fair to the man's memory considering the story is essentially fiction??

kushka53 A turgid, exhausting film filmed with overwrought acting. Watching Depardieu was an embarrassment. It was a waste of my time. Some beautiful music but a repetitious soundtrack and thin story. Beautifully lit, tho'--so many scenes were Vermeer paintings on celluloid. The director may be a jazz musician but he doesn't know squat about film making. For film making that attempts to tell a story that involves classical musicians I'll take Amadeus any day! And so gloomy!! Wow, watching this film was like being at a funeral on Xanax, half asleep, and surrounded by nothing but sadness and eye rolling. It was a real downer.

Armand Skin of ineffable miracle. Music like support of dreams,memories, a powerful love, harsh duty, disillusions, expectation, intangible spell and magic silence. Touching beauty and exercise of admiration. But the root remains a magnificent novel. It is very hard to define a perfect film about a master- shadow. At first, for the original form to present the soul of a special style. The words about music are not music but their impact for the reader may be more fascinated, more profound than any real musical rendition.In fact, "Tous les matins du monde" is a delicate homage for a lost time, a ambiguous glory of a age of a king, a dazzling brilliance and a melancholic contemplation. In same time, it is a splendid parable. Possession of ineffable, love like ladder between two different worlds, mystery of touching, forms of freedom and meekness, ambition of young man for who the victory is a deep exploration of life's taste, for who the price is more little in perspective of luxurious victory against the others are elements of subtle tale in which illusion is the heart of every existence.Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe is not only historical character or legendary viola's master, but he is European image of a Zen teacher in a century of flavors, lights and pleasure, sophisticated hypocrisy and Roi-Soleil. Jean-Pierre Marielle is impressive for the science of details revelation of a difficult role.Marin Marais is ordinary man for who the birth is duty to be somebody. The poverty, the humiliation are elements of a past who must be forget. The triumph, in any mode, in any form must be the fruit of a tense desire.I am a Pascal Quignard fan and this passion may be part of subjectivism but, this movie is not only a novel adaptation, or only a film about music. It is occasion to discover the real beauty of life, sadness, melancholia or desire. To discover a possible path to the sense of life. And I believe in this message importance.

Isabelle Michelet France -17th Century. Little known 17th Century viol player and composer Monsieur de Sainte Colombe regarded public performance as an act that corrupted the purity of music. Since his wife's death, he had lived in isolation with his two daughters Madeleine and Toinette –until a young musician, Marin Marais, convinces him to teach him viol. The ambitious pupil, aware of the unique quality of his master's music, will stop at nothing to get hold of the scores. The entire movie is played in rhythm with the viol -slow, melancholic, pure, beautiful. Action addicts should not even try to watch. But art lovers will have a delightful time.