{"id":16077,"date":"2014-12-04T03:09:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T02:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16077"},"modified":"2014-12-04T03:09:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T02:09:25","slug":"papillons-de-nuit-a-film-by-raoul-servais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/12\/04\/papillons-de-nuit-a-film-by-raoul-servais\/","title":{"rendered":"Papillons de Nuit, a film by Raoul Servais"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nD412R6H6DE\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"papillons.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/papillons.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From Homosurrealism to Belgio-surrealism. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nD412R6H6DE\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Papillons de Nuit<\/em><\/a> (1997) is a short homage to the Surrealist painter Paul Delvaux featuring a handful of familiar Delvaux motifs including nocturnal tramcars and large-eyed, bare-breasted women. Raoul Servais had already borrowed some of Delvaux&#8217;s imagery for his feature-length fantasy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0117865\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Taxandria<\/em><\/a> (1994), but that film doesn&#8217;t sustain itself over its running time despite the involvement of Alain Robbe-Grillet and Fran\u00e7ois Schuiten. Servais&#8217;s blend of live action and animation seems to work better in concentrated doses.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/08\/30\/sirene-by-raoul-servais\/\">Sirene by Raoul Servais<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/03\/02\/paul-delvaux-the-sleepwalker-of-saint-idesbald\/\">Paul Delvaux: The Sleepwalker of Saint-Idesbald<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/05\/24\/harpya-by-raoul-servais\/\">Harpya by Raoul Servais<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/01\/18\/taxandria-or-raoul-servais-meets-paul-delvaux\/\">Taxandria, or Raoul Servais meets Paul Delvaux<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Homosurrealism to Belgio-surrealism. Papillons de Nuit (1997) is a short homage to the Surrealist painter Paul Delvaux featuring a handful of familiar Delvaux motifs including nocturnal tramcars and large-eyed, bare-breasted women. Raoul Servais had already borrowed some of Delvaux&#8217;s imagery for his feature-length fantasy, Taxandria (1994), but that film doesn&#8217;t sustain itself over its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/12\/04\/papillons-de-nuit-a-film-by-raoul-servais\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Papillons de Nuit, a film by Raoul Servais&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,2,7,18],"tags":[349,1663],"class_list":["post-16077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-art","category-film","category-surrealism","tag-paul-delvaux","tag-raoul-servais"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4bj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}