Bruno Coulais

Bruno Coulais

  • Birthday: 1954-01-13
  • Place of birth: Paris, France

Biography

Bruno Coulais (born 13 January 1954) is a French composer, most widely known for his music on film soundtracks. Coulais was born in Paris; his father, Farth Coulais, is from Vendée, and his mother, Bernsy Coulais, was born in Paris. Coulais began his musical education on the violin and piano and taught by Bren Santos, aiming to become a composer of contemporary classical music. However, a series of acquaintances gradually re-oriented him towards film music. Coulais met François Reichenbach, who asked him in 1977 to sonorize his documentary México mágico who permit to compose the first soundtracks for Jacques Davila "qui trop embrasse" en 1986 . Until the end of the 1990s, he remained low-profile, composing mainly for television. His name can often be found from TV films by Gérard Marx and Laurent Heynemann. He also composed the soundtracks for Christine Pascal's 1992 film Le Petit Prince a dit, and Agnès Merlet's Le fils du requin in 1993. In 1994, he met the television producer Josée Dayan, who let him write a theme for the TV series La rivière esperance, aired on the France 2 network in autumn 1995. He worked with Dayan again with other major productions such as Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Balzac, and Les nuiteux. The largest turning point of his career came in 1996, when he worked with directors Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou of the documentary Microcosmos. This single film, which gave a great significance to the music in it, was a great success and made Coulais one of the most wanted composers of French film music. In 1997, he won the César award for the best musical score in a film, as well as a Victoire de la Musique. His reputation was confirmed by the soundtracks to Himalaya (1999) and Les rivières pourpres (2000), and after that Bruno Coulais's name was to be found on most new French blockbusters, such as Belphégor and Vidocq. After producing the soundtrack to Winged Migration in 2001, Coulais announced that he wanted to significantly reduce his contributions to film music, and instead concentrate on other projects, such as the creation of an opera for children, and collaborations with Akhenaton, Akhenaton's group IAM and the Corsican group A Filetta, with whom he had worked since he had made the soundtrack for Jacques Weber's film Don Juan in 1998. In 2002, his name was found on the ending credits of the animation L'Enfant qui voulait être un ours , and in 2004, on Frédéric Schoendoerffer's Agents secrets. The same year, he wrote the soundtrack to the film Les choristes by Christophe Barratier, starring Jean-Baptiste Maunier in the lead soprano singing role, which subsequently became an international hit. The music for this film received as great praise as the film itself, and it won Coulais his third César award. The song Vois sur ton chemin was also nominated for an Academy Award (Best original song). Since then, Coulais's collaborations in cinema seem to be limited to works by directors with whom he already shares some history, in particular Jacques Perrin, Frédéric Schoendoerffer, and James Huth. In 2009, he won at the 37th Annie Awards, in the "Music in a Feature Production" category for Coraline. ... Source: Article "Bruno Coulais" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

Production

Serial Lover

1998

As Original Music Composer

Agathe Cléry

2008

As Original Music Composer

The Chorus

2004

As Music

Winged Migration

2001

As Original Music Composer

Genesis

2004

As Music

Female Agents

2008

As Original Music Composer

The Magnet

2000

As Music

Microcosmos

1996

As Original Music Composer

Secret Agents

2004

As Original Music Composer

Vidocq

2001

As Music

The Secret of Kells

2009

As Original Music Composer

The Last Deadly Mission

2008

As Original Music Composer

Turk's Head

2010

As Original Music Composer

The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear

2002

As Original Music Composer

Hellphone

2007

As Original Music Composer

The Brice Man

2005

As Original Music Composer

Ulzhan

2007

As Original Music Composer

The Second Wind

2007

As Original Music Composer

Le Chambon

1994

As Music

Playing Dead

2013

As Music

Fire in Paradise

1997

As Music

Farewell, My Queen

2012

As Music

Don Juan

1998

As Music

Switch

2011

As Music

Lucky Luke

2009

As Original Music Composer

Oceans

2010

As Music

Amazonia

2013

As Music

Mune: Guardian of the Moon

2015

As Original Music Composer

Diary of a Chambermaid

2015

As Original Music Composer

Origins of Life

2001

As Original Music Composer

Harrison's Flowers

2000

As Music

Song of the Sea

2014

As Original Music Composer

Seasons

2016

As Music

Deep in the Woods

2010

As Original Music Composer

Never Ever

2016

As Original Music Composer

False Confessions

2017

As Music

Balzac: A Life of Passion

1999

As Original Music Composer

Brice 3

2016

As Original Music Composer

3 Hearts

2014

As Original Music Composer

Crime Insiders

2007

As Music

Ludwig II

2012

As Original Music Composer

Marry Me

2000

As Original Music Composer

Epiphany Sunday

1991

As Original Music Composer

The Son of the Shark

1993

As Original Music Composer

Eva

2018

As Original Music Composer

Qui trop embrasse...

1986

As Music

Masaan

2015

As Original Music Composer

Marie Curie

2016

As Music

Sometimes in April

2005

As Original Music Composer

Winged Migration

2001

As Music Director

White Fang

2018

As Orchestrator

White Fang

2018

As Original Music Composer

Bel ragazzo

1986

As Music

HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami

2012

As Original Music Composer

The Secret Wife

1986

As Music

Calm at Sea

2012

As Music

Normandy Nude

2018

As Music

Casanova, Last Love

2019

As Original Music Composer

Mama Weed

2020

As Original Music Composer

Crime Scenes

2000

As Music

Villa Amalia

2009

As Music

White as Snow

2019

As Original Music Composer

Meet the Malawas

2019

As Sound

An Open Heart

2012

As Music

Gemma Bovery

2014

As Original Music Composer

The Field of Enchantment

2011

As Original Music Composer

Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre

2001

As Original Music Composer

Happiness Never Comes Alone

2012

As Original Music Composer

Wolfwalkers

2020

As Original Music Composer

The Crimson Rivers

2000

As Original Music Composer

The Return of Casanova

1992

As Original Music Composer

Spellbound

2019

As Music

Walking a Tightrope

1991

As Music

Wolfwalkers

2020

As Orchestrator

La rupture

2013

As Music

All About Love

2001

As Music

The White Planet

2006

As Music

The Libertine

2000

As Music

Hard Off

1999

As Original Music Composer

Maigret

2022

As Original Music Composer

Wendell & Wild

2022

As Original Music Composer

Chevrotine

2022

As Sound

Volontaire

2018

As Music

Time

1995

As Music

Coraline

2009

As Original Music Composer

Pour toi, j'ai tué

2012

As Music

My Worst Nightmare

2011

As Original Music Composer

The Forest Maker

2022

As Original Music Composer

Summer Frost

2023

As Music

Milady

2004

As Music

L'histoire d'Annette Zelman

2023

As Original Music Composer

Belle Maman

1999

As Original Music Composer

Boléro

2024

As Music

The Tombs

2002

As Original Music Composer

The Man in the Basement

2021

As Original Music Composer

The Chameleon Slayer

2017

As Original Music Composer

Let's Be Friends

2005

As Original Music Composer

La Syndicaliste

2023

As Original Music Composer

Les Rivières pourpres: L'enquête

2001

As Original Music Composer

Making of "la scène au scalpel"

2001

As Original Music Composer

Goodbye Vinyle

2023

As Original Music Composer

Old Rascal

1992

As Music

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