Éric Demarsan

Éric Demarsan

Nascimento : 1938-10-02, Paris, France

História

Éric Demarsan (born 2 October 1938), also known as Éric de Marsanis, is a French film score composer. After working as arranger for composers Michel Magne then François de Roubaix (including on Le Samouraï) he scored L'Armée des ombres (aka Army of Shadows) in 1969 then Le Cercle rouge (aka The red circle) in 1970, both by director Jean-Pierre Melville. After that, he scored numerous movies for other great directors like Jean-Pierre Mocky, Costa-Gavras or Patrice Leconte. Éric Demarsan also composed many songs, the Pop Symphony album under pseudonym Jason Havelock, as well as some musics for sound and light shows. Since 2000 he works frequently with director Guillaume Nicloux and then Hervé Hadmar. Source: Article "Éric Demarsan" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Perfil

Éric Demarsan

Filmes

Melville, le dernier samouraï
Music
Like nobody else Jean-Pierre Melville influenced modern filmmaking. This documentary follows his creative process step by step, showing him becoming the father of the Nouvelle Vague and one of the most iconic directors of French cinema.
Letters from Athens
Music Producer
With the German Occupation in Greece (1941-1944) as a background, this film tells the love story between my father, an assistant professor at the mysterious German Scientific Institute of Athens - financed by the occupying power, Germany, but in reality a refuge for resistant students - and Nelly, a young student in Fine Arts. The film also traces the portrait of their friend Rudolf Fahrner, founder of the Institute, comrade of the Stauffenberg Brothers and one of the few conspirators of the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler, on 20 July 1944, that survived the repression that followed.
The End
Original Music Composer
Depardieu plays an unnamed hunter and we join him and his dog as they depart for a nearby forest to snare some rabbits - or perhaps he's hunting for something far more elusive? His excursion soon progresses from carefree meandering to a palpable sense of placelessness and it doesn't take long before the hunter's dog disappears and he finds himself lost.
O Concílio de Pedra
Music
Laura adota um bebê tailandês e depois de alguns anos começa a sentir alguma coisa diferente na criança. Após um acidente que o deixa em coma, Laura decide investigar a origem do menino e encontra muitas histórias estranhas e sobrenaturais.
Hanging Offense
Original Music Composer
A strange investigation doesn’t erase the regrets of a grieving woman cop. Every four years, the past catches up with her. Every four years this woman is very afraid. Her fear is such that she feels it could kill her because in her dreams reality begins.
Jean-Pierre Melville and Army of Shadows
Self
In this documentary, produced by Philippe Quinconneau for StudioCanal, editor Françoise Bonnot, actor Jean-Pierre Cassel, composer Éric Demarsan, writer and filmmaker Philippe Labro, cinematographer Pierre Lhomme, and filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier share insights and anecdotes about Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 film ARMY OF SHADOWS.
La Candide Madame Duff
Music
Married to a younger woman, Jacob sinks into jealousy, alcohol and violence.
Tout est calme
Original Music Composer
A secret society, somewhere in France, is responsible for the major unsolved murder mysteries throughout history (such as Henri IV, Lincoln, Kennedy, John-Paul I)...
Vidange
Compositor
Mireille Bertillet, a provincial judge, is transferred to Paris. She inherits a heavy file compromising high personalities.
Vidange
Original Music Composer
Mireille Bertillet, a provincial judge, is transferred to Paris. She inherits a heavy file compromising high personalities.
Georges Bataille - À perte de vue
Music
The film contains the interviews with Pierre Klossowski and Jacques Pimpanneau.
La dernière fête
Original Music Composer
The story of Marquise De Prie, the wife of Marquis De Savoy and the mistress of King Louis XV.
La treizième voiture
Music
A Scottish woman with her nephew travels to Russia in the Paris-Moscow express. On the same flight in the 13th carriage, the old icons are returning from France to Russia. Thieves try to replace real icons with fake ones.
The Big O
Music
A tribute to Orson Welles. When Kovacs meets Agi, he does not know what awaits him: cinema, alcohol and love do not mix well when you are a Hungarian director parachuted into Hollywood...
The Specialists
Original Music Composer
While being transferred to another prison, two convicts - Stéphane Carella and Paul Brandon - effect a miraculous escape. They are pursued across the Verdon Gorge before arriving at an isolated farmhouse whose owner, Laura, offers them sanctuary. Since the death of her husband, Laura has longed to get her own back on the police and she agrees to help Carella and Brandon in their scheme to rob a casino in Nice. After a shoot out with the casino’s owners, Carella realises that not everything is what it seems. Brandon is not what he appears...
The Executioner of Hearts
Music
While filming on location in Tahiti, a small-time actor seizes an opportunity to make it big, but the attention may be more than he bargained for.
L'indiscrétion
Music
An innocent man stumbles across a political intrigue, when he discovers that his neighbours apartment is bugged. They are then found dead and their killers description resembles the man.
5% de risque
Music
A troubled gentleman named David ponders whether vegemite can be consumed undiluted without posing a health risk. Meanwhile his friend, a senior government official, returning from an evening, has a car accident and his passenger dies in the accident. He puts the corpse in the driver's seat, but there is a witness. To eliminate this annoying witness, he calls on his David, a physicist, who wants to make it a perfect crime by quantifying the risk taken in each of its stages. And compressing it enough to make the execution of the most improbable.
Roberte
Conductor
Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old Catholic aesthete, professor of canon law, whom she saves from impeachment for collaboration during the war. He submits his wife to a perverse custom: the laws of hospitality or prostitution of the wife by the husband.
Roberte
Music
Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old Catholic aesthete, professor of canon law, whom she saves from impeachment for collaboration during the war. He submits his wife to a perverse custom: the laws of hospitality or prostitution of the wife by the husband.
Ça va pas la tête
Music
Attention, the Kids Are Watching
Original Music Composer
In a seaside villa, under the care of a nanny, a group of children spend most of their days watching violent television shows.
Pauline et l'ordinateur
Music
Seeking medical advice to lose a few pounds, a woman lands up finding out about the usefulness of a computer, not just for her diet but also for work, with her parents,and to find a new boyfriend after the previous one has left her.
Tomorrow's Children
Original Music Composer
The hero of this bleak science-fiction story is a married man who, along with his wife, survives the mysterious destruction of the world. After his wife dies, he makes plans to seek out whatever remnants of civilization exist. However, the arrival of a group of children and their older mentor changes his plans.
The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard
Music
Based on the idea by Roland Topor (screenwriter of Roman Polanski's The Tenant), this very curious completely silent melodrama tells the story of Mona, who has left her father, the railway gatekeeper, after being raped on the train track. She is kidnapped and taken to a Parisian whorehouse. However, a disinherited prince, Dudu who tries to rescue her, is himself kidnapped and forced to serve as a male prostitute. The two captives meet there and fall in love. They are taken away by different rich people - he to an Arab "harem," she to a surgeon's home.
The Red Ibis
Original Music Composer
A mentally disturbed man named Jérémie is scouring the area in search of women he can strangle with his scarf, which is embroidered with an ibis.
A Woman Possessed
Original Music Composer
Laurent, a seemingly normal young man, is looking to join a witches’ sect that resides in a forest near his house. The only thing is Laurent’s wife Aline also needs to join the sect in order to complete his initiation. Aline is understandably reluctant, so the sect’s heads design a series of events designed to break her down.
Seção Especial de Justiça
Original Music Composer
Essa história é verdadeira. Um Tribunal de Exceção, uma Seção Especial, foi formado para condenar seis homens inocentes. Mas todos os juízes que o compunham foram condenados primeiro, antes de cumprirem o seu grotesco papel. Na França ocupada durante a WW2, um oficial alemão foi morto. O colaboracionista Governo de Vichy decidiu atribuir a responsabilidade pela morte à seis criminosos "Pé-de-Chinelo". Juízes leais ao governo foram chamados para julgar e condenar o mais rápido possível. Aparentemente a tradução do título original para o Brasil foi meio capenga. Ficou Sessão com "ss" e não com "ç".
Death of a Guide
Music
La Sainte Famille
Original Music Composer
"The Holy Family" - A woman of powerful character and a priest create a religious sect, through a nun who practices automatic writing dictated by the Virgin Mary.
O Círculo Vermelho
Original Music Composer
O grande ladrão Corey acabou de sair da prisão. Mas, ao invés de seguir a linha da liberdade que respeita a lei, ele se vê de volta ao mundo sombrio do crime, cruzando com um notório fugitivo e um ex-policial alcoólatra. Como esse trio improvável planeja um roubo contra probabilidades impossíveis, sua trilha é perseguida por um inspetor implacável, e a sorte sela seus destinos.
O Exército das Sombras
Original Music Composer
Começando em outubro de 1942, o filme acompanha vários meses na vida de alguns combatentes congregados em torno de Phillipe Gerbier, um sossegado engenheiro civil que, na realidade, é um dos maiores líderes da Resistência.