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- From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
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- Subject: Re: Tous les Matins du Monde
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 01:45:47 GMT
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- "In France, Baroque is Suddenly a la Mode"
- by John Rockwell, writing in the NY _Times_, Nov 8 92
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- "And French intellectuals can indulge in self-congratulation that a movie
- with as rarefied a subject as 17th-century French viol players could
- top the charts. Since its opening in December 1991, more than 2 million
- tickets to 'Tous les Matins du Monde' have been sold in France alone,
- 700,000 of them in Paris--remarkable numbers for a non-American film.
- "'Tous les Matins du Monde'... has been bought in 31 countries, it
- has been especially popular in Argentina, where it was the No. 1 film in
- its first week. When the French Oscars, called Cesars, came around this
- year, Mr [Alain] Corneau's work was nominated for 11 prizes and won 7,
- including those for best film, best director and best music.
- "Pascal Quignard's novel by the same name was published last winter
- and became a best seller. The soundtrack, overseen by the violist Jordi
- Savall, has sold 210,000 copies in France. Soon after its release, the
- recording hit No. 2 on the sales charts, where it stayed for nearly two
- months, displacing all but Michael Jackson."
- "Despite its exotic subject--the relationship between the Versailles
- court composer Marin Marais and his teacher, Monsieur de Saint-Colombe....
- "'Tous les Matins du Monde' takes its title from a sentence in the
- novel that translates as 'Every morning on earth is irrevocable,'
- reflecting Sainte-Colombe's mystical fatalism."
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- Kiran Wagle <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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