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JEAN-MICHEL BERNARD
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Money (2016) -
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The Love Punch (2014) –
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Hugo (2011) –
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Be Kind Rewind (2008) –
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The Science of Sleep (2006) –
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BIOGRAPHY
Jean-Michel is an experienced and versatile composer who has most recently scored the
feature film ‘Money’ for director Gela Babluani.
Jean-Michel Bernard began playing the piano at the age of two. When he was 14, he received
first place at the Bordeaux Conservatory and later graduated from the Paris ‘Ecole Normale de
Musique’. At 19, he recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, whilst pursuing
a career as a jazz musician and performing with prominent Jazz artists such as Wild Bill Davis,
Jimmy Woode (Duke Ellington’s bassist) and Eddie Davis among others.
His career as a composer began with animated films, then as music al director of the successful
radio show « L’Oreille en Coin » on National Pubic Radio France Inter from 1987 to 1991.
Collaborators include Philip Kaufman, Lalo Schifrin, Ennio Morricone, Claude Bolling, and
many more. Between 2000 and 2003, he performed with the Ray Charles Quartet on the
European and Australian tours as organist and conductor, “this guy is a genius” Ray used to
say concerning Jean-Michel Bernard. He also scored many documentaries and commercials
during the 90’s.
He frequently works with director Michel Gondry and has composed songs for films including
Human Nature and the Science of Sleep, which screened at the Sundance and Berlin Film
Festivals. He was nominated for the World Soundtrack Awards in 2007 as discovery of the year
and won the France Musique/UCMF award at the Cannes Film Festival the same year,
In 2008 he scored the music for Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind, Cash by Eric Besnard, and
A Pain in the Ass by Francis Veber. The same day Be Kind Rewind was shown at Sundance
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Festival, Jean-Michel Bernard performed alongside rapper/singer Mos Def and Gondry, an avid
drummer.
The following year, the Cannes Film Festival invited him to represent France in the film music
concert program. He also received an award for his achievement outside of his native country
from the European Union of Film Music Composers (UCMF) and was appointed as sound
designer for both HBO’s channel and website.
In 2010 he collaborated with French actress and director Fanny Ardant on her film Chimères
Absentes and worked on Academy Award winning ‘Hugo’ by Martin Scorsese. In 2013, he
collaborated again with Fanny Ardant for her movie Cadences Obstinées starring Gerard
Depardieu and scored the music of Love Punch by Joel Hopkins starring Pierce Brosnan and
Emma Thompson. In 2015 he scored ‘Love at First Child’ by Anne Giafferi.
Jean-Michel has conducted master classes at Cannes Film Festival as well as in Montreal,
Angers, La Rochelle, and more recently in Aubagne, where he performed a live version of Jazz
For Dogs, an album co-created with Kimiko Ono and featuring a number of prestigious guests
including Fanny Ardant, Francis Lai and Laurent Korcia.
In 2014, Jean-Michel Bernard began teaching film music classes at the Paris Conservatory and
was guest of honor with Michael Giacchino at the Audi Talent Awards in Paris with the Paris
Symphonic Orchestra, at Braunschweig Festival and at Soundtrack Cologne Festival.
He participated as composer, arranger and performer on the upcoming album by “The
Avalanches” and scored “Terra”, a contemporary dance project which premiered at the Coronet
in London in March 2016.
FILM CREDITS
Money
Electrick Films
Directed by Géla Babluani
Love at First Child
Benji Films
Directed by Anne Giafferi
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Musician’s Contractor: Paris
Fox Searchlight Productions
Directed by Wes Anderson
Obsessive Rhythms
Alfama Films
Directed by Fanny Ardant
The Love Punch
Songs: “Mon Désarroi”, “La Ballade de Gibraltar”
Process Media
Directed by Joel Hopkins
Paris-Manhattan
Vendôme Production Directed
by Sophie Lellouche
L’oncle Charles
Les Productions du Champ Poirier
Directed by Etienne Chatiliez
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Bienvenue à bord
Songs: “Au creux de la vague”,Trajectories”
Pathé
Directed by Eric Lavaine
Hugo
Performer: “Si Tu Veux Marguerite”
Producer-orchestrations: “Ca Gaze”, “Aubade Charmeuse”, “Carinosa”, “Si Tu
Veux Marguerite - Pathé
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Qui a envie d’être aimé
Elephant-France 3
Directed by Anne Giafferi
Je n’ai rien oublié
Quad Productions Directed
by Bruno Chiche
A Pain in the Ass
Pulsar Films
Directed by Francis Veber
Ca$h
Pulsar Films
Directed by Eric Besnard
Be Kind Rewind
Performer: “I Ain’t Got Nobody”, “Your Feets Too Big”, “Solitude”, “Mr Fletcher’s Song
Writer: “Mr Fletcher’s Song”
New Line Cinema Directed
by Michel Gondry
Grace is Gone
Composer: Stock Music
Weinstein Company
Directed by James C. Strouse
Détrompez-Vous
Studio Canal
Directed by Bruno Dega
Ma place au soleil
Song: “You Don’t Know Me, I Don’t Know You”
StudioCanal
Directed by Eric de Montalier
The Science of Sleep
Songs: “If You Rescue Me”, “Golden the Pony Boy”
Directed by Michel Gondry
In the City
Writer: “Pour Toujours”
Canal + España
Directed by Cesc Gay
The Officer’s Ward
France 2 Cinéma
Directed by François Dupeyron
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Human Nature
Lila’s Songs “Hair Everywhere”, “Au dehors frémit la pluie”, “Here with You”
New Line Productions
Directed by Michael Gondry
L’ame-soeur
Quad Productions
Directed by Jean-Marie Bigard
Madame Bovary
MK2 Productions
Directed by Claude Chabrol
Jours tranquilles à Clichy
AtoZ Productions
Directed by Claude Chabrol
TV CREDITS
Collection rue des ravissantes: Boris Vian fait son cinema
De quoi je me mêle
France 2
Directed by Pablo Larcuen
La vie à l’envers
TV Movie
Caminando Productions
Directed by Annie Giafferi
Des frères et des soeurs
TV Movie
Directed by Annie Giafferi
Vieilles canailles
Fontana
Directed by Arnaud Sélignac
Marsupilami
Animation TV Series
Marathon-Walt Disney
Pyramide Sony
Television
Productions
Composer
Short Film Credits
Bonne Année Charles
Directed by Karim Adda
Rester Là
Directed by Fabien Daphy
Le Faux Pas
Directed by Sonia Buchman
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Chimères Absentes
Directed by Fanny Ardant
Freud’s Magic Powder
Directed by Eduard Getaz-USA
Tapis Rouge
Land of Fantasy
Directed by Max Azoulay
The Making of Be Kind Rewind
Documentary
Directed by Lance Bangs
Lubrique
Directed by Sonia Buchman, Julie Merle
The Making of The Science of Sleep
Documentary
Directed by Jeff Buchanan
J’ai Plein de Projets
Directed by Karim Adda
La 17ème Marche
Directed by Karim Adda
Chamane
Directed by Thomas Gilou
VIDEO GAME CREDITS
The Sims Makin’ Magic
Directed by Will Wright
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