Tous les matins du monde (English: "All The Mornings of The World")[1] is a 1991 French film based on the book of the same name by Pascal Quignard.

[2] Set during the reign of Louis XIV, the film shows the musician Marin Marais looking back on his young life when he was briefly a pupil of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe,[2] and features much music of the period, especially that for the viola da gamba.

The film's central character, Marin Marais, was a French composer during the late-17th and early-18th centuries who wrote for the viol (viola da gamba), of which he was a master.

[3] Aging court composer Marin Marais (Gérard Depardieu) recalls his former master and unequalled viol player, the Jansenist, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe.

After the death of his wife, Sainte-Colombe buries himself in his music, bringing up his two daughters on his own, teaching them to be musicians, and playing in a consort with them for local noble audiences.

Sainte-Colombe shuts himself away in a cabin in his garden in order to perfect the art of viol playing, and to indulge in visions of his dead wife.