Vladimir Cosma is a French-Romanian musician, composer and conductor born in 1940.
Vladimir Cosma is a French-Romanian musician, composer and conductor born in 1940.
As a child, Vladimir Cosma was immersed in the world of music. In his family there were many conductors and musicians.
He studied violin and composition at the National Conservatory of Music in Bucharest, his home town.
He then tried his luck in Paris, where he entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in 1963.
Vladimir Cosma became known to the general public through hundreds of film scores from 1968 onwards.
Among his greatest compositions for the 7th art are The Tall Blond Guy with the Black Shoe, The Ace of Aces, Diva, The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob, The Boom, The Goat, An Elephant That Trumps All, The Student, My Father’s Glory, My Mother’s Castle, Zizanie, Bonzaï, Dinner for Dumbasses, The Wing or the Thigh, Sunken Worlds…
The café of Amélie, the mansion of Untouchables, the jazz club of the finale of La La Land, the Hôtel du Nord of the mythical replica of Arletty “Atmosphere”, the cinema of A bout de souffle, the restaurant of Ratatouille, the quays of the Seine of Midnight in Paris, the secret places of the Da Vinci Code, the grocery store of January in La Traversée de Paris , the Bridge of Inception and Peur sur la ville, the addresses of the spectacular scenes of Mission Impossible 6, but also series Call my agent, Gears, Le Bureau des légendes, Sense8, Sex and The City, Gossip Girl…
Etienne Daho’s Café de Flore, Jay-Z and Kanye West’s hotel in Nas in Paris, Serge Gainsbourg’s Poinçonneur des Lilas metro station, Serge Reggiani and Marc Lavoine’s Mirabeau Bridge, Mc Solaar’s Lyon station…
The places evoked in the comics Adèle Blanc-Sec, Largo Winch, Blake and Mortimer, Michel Vaillant…
But also in the novels of Ernest Hemingway, Victor Hugo, Leo Malet, Daniel Pennac, Marc Levy, Guillaume Musso… you’ll find all the must-see places of Parisian Pop Culture in this new guide.
