Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Tous Les matins Du Monde is extremely delightful,satisfying and fulfilled not only as colors, frames, photography, music, calligraphy ,but also as script,dialogs,acting.Corneau's proficiency of the plastic is amazing.The calming images are not a less important "character" in this movie than the music.Some colors are delightfully warm;others are cold. Its Callophily and calmness of mind is that of the Dutch painters.(Some of the frames are direct,explicit quotations and do homage to their pictorial sources.)Still,the "substance" is meaningful and as rich as the "style" (if this dichotomy could be acceptable).Tous Les matins Du Monde is not at all empty formalism,but an inquiry into the heart's depths.This depth is not fake;its secret warmth touches the heart;the things said about music are not conventional.The plastic is Dutch.Ste. Colombe is sullen,Dumpish,brutal,peeved and surly,but his daughters (Manon and the younger Toinette) are sunny and sweet-tempered.Madeleine/Manon's eyes are piercing.Marais is a vulgarian;ambitious,cruel,in-satiate,he has,at first,no far-sightedness,but is greedy and trivial;hot-blooded,but superficial.Little by little,through music,through life,he humanizes.The final,touching "Marais",played by THE Depardieu,is humble;truly humble.Now,he tastes,he sips the essential.(It is very relevant that both Marielle and G. Depardieu have sensual,earthly faces.)He gives his mind to music.This Marais is the one called by the very ill Manon who wants to pay him out.Ste. Colombe puts confidence in Marais,after he gave it him hot several times.Who would have thought that Marais and Ste. Colombe will come to be,now,two of a kind?The contemplation,the deepening gets the concreteness of an act of feeding.Marais meets two exceptional human beings:Monsieur De Ste. Colombe,and his elder daughter,"Manon" (Mrs. Anne Brochet).Marais' misfortune is to be unable to love people.Manon's misfortune is to be too able to love. Ste. Colombe's happiness is to love (his wife,played by Mrs. Caroline Sihol).It is obvious that Tous Les matins Du Monde is a movie about the human heart,about the hidden coherence of the life,about the secret roundness of history when life is lived in search of objective and firm values.Tous Les matins Du Monde is one of the very few movies successful in expressing a highly developed interior life.Horrid things are narrated in a suave,heart-rending way.The music we listen to,the plastic quality of the frames we see,the acting we watch,the dialogs we hear--The movie's meanings are shown,and don't need to be explained here.Mrs. Anne Brochet acted in Cyrano De Bergerac as well.Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquility of thy life.--JEREMY TAYLOR.Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved of by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.--COLTON.Some of the fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination; as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.--SIR W. TEMPLE.Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.--BEETHOVEN.

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.

Normally I don't listen to classical music. I'm a fan of rock and pop music, which in my opinion is not that bizarre for a 27 year old man, but even though I don't know much about classical music, I can almost always enjoy it when it is used in a movie. The same here. In my opinion, the music may well be the best reason why I want to give this movie another try. I would even say that everybody should watch this movie at least twice. First you should go for the entire movie, so you know the story, and the second time you should close your eyes and turn up the volume in order to fully enjoy the fragile, but oh so beautiful music. I truly wish I knew more about classical music, in order to understand it better. Now I'm only an amateur who can judge in terms of 'I hated it' or 'I loved it', but who isn't able to say much more about it. Still, the movie has more to offer than just the music, the story and the acting are nice as well and that's something I know more to tell about.This movie starts with an old Marin Marais who is listening to his orchestra that is rehearsing a composition by Monsieur de Sainte Colombe at the royal court in Versailles. But they don't play it the way it should be played and Marin Marais takes a viola da gamba to show them how it should be done. When he starts playing, all his memories about his time with the family de Sainte Colombe return and he starts telling everything: How he first met his master at the age of seventeen, how he fell in love with one of his daughters, how he became appointed to the court of Louis XIV, but never was seen as a real musician by his master... He also tells them that Monsieur de Sainte Colombe had a special way of working and that his music had a special reason of existence for the man. When his wife died and he wasn't home because of his work, the man got overwhelmed by grieve and a severe depression. From that moment on he dedicated his life to music and his two young daughters Madeleine and Toinette, avoiding the outside world and locking himself up in a small wooden shed. It was soon known what a good musician he was, even at the court of Louis XIV, where he was offered a job in the king's orchestra. But he refused because his music wasn't intended for people who didn't understand the real meaning of it: remembering his beloved wife who died too soon.Despite the fact that in my opinion the Baroque period is probably the worst period in history when it comes to clothing and architecture - it's all much too pompous and over the top to my taste - I must say that it didn't bother me all that much in this movie. The main reason for that is because it wasn't constantly shown. Take for instance Monsieur de Sainte Colombe. Even though he lived in this time period, he didn't wear any of those costumes, but preferred to keep wearing his old and much soberer clothes. The same for his daughters, they never wear those extra large ball gowns, but have quite simple dresses. The only person that wore those clothes was the adult Marin Marais, and he only appears in the last part of the movie. But don't worry, that's about the only bad comment that I have about this movie. The acting and the story are certainly very good and make this movie worth watching. But as I said earlier in this review, nothing could be compared to the wonderful music.In the end I can only say that everything that I saw, worked. It all looked good and I really don't understand why this movie isn't known by more voters on this website (only 971 at this moment). I believe that the fact that it hasn't been released on DVD yet, can be a reason for that 'problem', but don't let that be a reason not to watch it. When you get the chance to see it on VHS or on television, I certainly should give it a try. I really liked it and I give this movie a 7.5/10.

A truly amazing movie with Gerard Depardieu at his best. He creates an atmosphere by a single look, rules the screen whenever he is on. Surprisingly, even his wash-out son, the poor Guillaume couldn't manage to do any harm to this throat-gripping tale. Nevertheless, the film is far less pleasure for the hearing impaired as the music is the real hot shot of this movie. It is simply unforgettable. All the Mornings of the World is not a mass movie (though it had an incredible success, 2 million people saw it in France alone). It is slow, action-free and cathartically sad with a very special classical kind of soundtrack for the movie connoisseurs.