Bruno Coulais

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Bruno Coulais is a French composer, born in Paris on 13 January 1954. He has a father from Vendée and his mother is an Iraqi Jew. He is most widely known for his music on film soundtracks.

Coulais began his musical education on the violin and piano, aiming to become a composer of contemporary classical music. However, a series of acquaintances gradually re-oriented him towards film music. Coulais was particularly influenced by director François Reichenbach, who asked him in 1977 to write the soundtrack to his new documentary Mexico Magico. The first full-length production he composed the score for was the 1986 film La femme secrète by Sébastien Grall. 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.
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  • Svetita

    Les Choristes made me bawl - I seriously doubt that movie would've had such an effect on me if it wasn't for the beautiful touching soundtrack. That's a MASTERPIECE we have here, that's what it is.

    last month
  • oniomania

    Обожаю песню Эшлинг :3

    March 2012
  • sme1oldno1new

    Les choristes !!

    February 2012
  • Wepeel6

    Why isn't the Coraline Soundtrack in his discography?

    February 2012
  • Kleber01z

    the soundtrack of Coraline is just as perfect

    February 2012
  • Synesthesis

    Oceans is probably the one of his best works !

    February 2012
  • FallingUpwards7

    Нравится.

    January 2012
  • MarianneRoos

    His music on Hymalaya has reached something within me ever since I heard it for the first time years and years ago. I keep listening to it every now and then and it always feels like a meditation on life.

    December 2011
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