Thomas Dappelo
Since graduating from the CNSM in Paris, Thomas Dappelo has cultivated a certain eclecticism.
He works as a sound engineer for leading classical labels in Europe and the USA, and won a Grammy Award in 2014 for Anne Sofie Von Otter's album Douce France. He has recorded and mixed numerous soundtracks, including Alexandre Desplat's De rouille et d'os, which won a César for Best Music in 2013. At the same time, Thomas developed a career as an image composer, to which he now devotes himself full-time. In 2019, he will compose and orchestrate the soundtrack for Au nom de la terre, Edouard Bergeon's first feature film and a box office success.
The open spaces and the relationship with the land inspire him to write a rather raw music with folk accents that modestly accompanies the psychological evolution of the characters. Since then, he has continued to work with the filmmaker on his documentary work and on his second feature film, La Promesse Verte, to be released in 2024. For this film, he created a stunning score that blends Indonesian gamelans and Japanese taikos with more European orchestrations. Thanks to his years of experience as a mixing engineer, Thomas has put a strong emphasis on production and sound selection. On Dolores, la malédiction du pull-over rouge, a docu-drama series produced by Canal+ to be broadcast in the autumn of 2021, orchestral themes blend with more electronic and analogue textures. Brutality and violence are expressed through metallic, tearing sounds and saturated acoustic textures. Often minimalist, her compositions never deny melodic efficiency.
With Touchées, Alexandra Lamy presents three women on their journey of reconstruction. The main theme, written by Thomas, whose delicate emotions are at first simply evoked, gradually develops and reveals itself as the characters emancipate themselves. He recently completed the original score for the brilliant documentary collection Crimes contre l'humanité by Gabriel Le Bomin and the feature-length documentary La légende de la Palme d'Or continue... directed by Alexis Veller and presented at Cannes 2025 in the Official Selection (Cannes Classics).
'Sans retour' (6x52') - Olga Vincent, Pascal Fontanille - In post-production.
'Serbie Native' (documentaire Arte - 52') - Elena Volochine - In production.
'Devenir cheffe' (documentaire Arte - 52') - - In production.
2025 : 'Dieu peut se défendre tout seul' by Isabelle Cottenceau
2024: ‘La Promesse Verte’ by Edouard Bergeon
2018: ‘Au nom de la terre’ by Edouard Bergeon
2015: ‘La nuit s’achève’ by Cyril Leuthy
2013: ‘Les fils de la terre’ by Edouard Bergeon
2025 : ‘La légende ce la Palme d’Or continue…’ by Alexis Veller. Broadcasted Cannes Classics - Cannes film festival 2025
2024 : ‘Le cinéma de Jean-Pierre Léaud’ (documentaire - Arte) de Cyril Leuthy.
2023: ‘L’Amour Vache’ (France 5) by Edouard Bergeon
2022: ‘Godard, seul le cinéma’ (ARTE) by Cyril Leuthy. Selected at the Mostra de Venise
2022: ‘Un président, l’Europe et la guerre’ by Guy Lagache (120’ - France 2)
2022: ‘La rafle des notables’ by Gabriel Le Bomin (90’ - France TV)
2020: ‘Voyage au Pays des Hommes sans nom’ by Sylvain Tesson and Philppe Bodet (France 2)
2019: ‘La face noire des énergies vertes’ by Jean-Louis Perez and Guillaume Pitron (Arte)
2018: ‘Queen of Kalahari’ by Alexis Veller (Feature documentary for Chopard)
2018: ‘Ils ont tué mon fils’ by Edouard Bergeon (Canal +)
2018: ‘Vème république’ by Gabriel Le Bomin (France 2)
2015: ‘La légende de la palme d’or’ by Alexis Veller - Cannes Classics, Cannes film festival 2015
2007-2013: ‘Les routes de l’impossible’ (seasons 1 to 5, 24 x 52’ - France 5) by Tony Comiti
SHORTS 2018: ‘Et ta prostate ça va ?’ by Jeanne Paturle and Cécile Rousset
2016: ‘Le COD et le coquelicot’ by Jeanne Paturle and Cécile Rousset
2025 : ‘Crimes contre l’humanité’ (docu-serires - 3x52’ - France TV) by Gabriel Le Bomin
2024 : ‘GIGN, Histoire Secrète’ (8x26’ - CANAL+) by Philippe Bodet, Nicolas Cotto and Frédéric Decossas
2024: 'L’École du Nord’ (docu-series 3x52’ - France TV)
2024: ‘Je suis né à 17 ans’ (France 2) by Julien Séri
2023: ‘Brigade Anonyme’ (M6) by Julien Séri
2022: ‘Touchées’ (TF1) by Alexandra Lamy
2021: ‘Dolores, la malédiction du pull over rouge’ (docu-fiction 4 x 52’ - Canal +) by Julien Seri