MovieScore Media just released a soundtrack album for the 2025 drama feature film MOI QUI T’AIMAIS (C’est Si Bon) with original music composed by PHILIPPE SARDE (The Tenant, Tess, Quest for Fire, Lord of the Flies,Ghost Story, Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud, Pirates, Barocco). Directed by Diane Kurys, starring Marina Foïs, Roschdy Zem and Vincent Colombe and produced by New Light Films the film follows the tumultuous love story between two cinema stars at the height of their glory: Yves Montand and Simone Signoret.
Music Box Records has also announced a new limited edition CD featuring Sarde’s expanded scores for Roger Kahane’s Sortie de secours and Yves Boisset’s La Travestie & La Tribu. Click here to order the album and find out more about the release.
“When I read the script for this film, I thought Diane Kurys had written a film that retraces my entire professional life, since it brings together many of the directors I’ve worked for. That’s why the project moves and touches me particularly. The music had to express a simple emotion. Because Diane likes things that convey emotions simply, without complexity. From the script stage, I worked on her instructions. I was wary of all the pitfalls of easy music that has nothing to do with simple music. I initially wondered if there should be a connection with the score of the films mentioned, like those by Sautet, for example, but Diane didn’t want to, and she was right. For the score, I favoured the piano. What’s simpler and more complicated at the same time than a piano? What’s more moving than a piano?” – Philippe Sarde.
ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Known as one of the most original French film composers, Philippe Sarde’s career embraces 50 years of collaboration on the best movies and with great directors. Son of an opera singer and nephew of the composer George Auric, his career began with Les choses de la vie (Claude Sautet, 1970) at the age of 16. The immediate success of the music and the recording of the “Chanson d’Hélène” by Romy Schneider made him immediately famous for his very first movie. This marked the start of Philippe Sarde’s legendary career, writing scores for the best directors that went on to become milestones in film music. His exigency and the originality of his writing, mixing unforgettable melodies with unusual orchestrations, made him the regular composer of Claude Sautet, Marco Ferreri, Bertrand Tavernier, Roman Polanski, Georges Lautner, André Téchiné, Costa-Gavras and many others. Phillipe Sarde received an Oscar nomination for Tess (Roman Polanski, 1979), as well as being nominated 10 times for the Best Music César, winning the prize for Barocco (André Téchiné, 1976). Defined by Bertrand Tavernier as “musical screenwriter”, Philippe Sarde is famous to create feeling with his music that goes beyond the images on screen. Among his best known scores are The Bear (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1988), Ghost Story (John Irvin, 1981), Quest for Fire (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1981), Lord of the Flies (Harry Hook, 1990) and Music Box (Costa-Gavras, 1989).
