{"id":17357,"date":"2015-10-21T01:02:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T00:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17357"},"modified":"2015-10-21T01:02:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T00:02:27","slug":"dream-of-the-wild-horses-a-film-by-denys-colomb-de-daunant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/10\/21\/dream-of-the-wild-horses-a-film-by-denys-colomb-de-daunant\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream of the Wild Horses, a film by Denys Colomb de Daunant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6MRjGhEOtO8\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"horses.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/horses.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Denys Colomb de Daunant wrote and acted in Albert Lamorisse&#8217;s boy-meets-horse film, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0044518\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>White Mane<\/em><\/a>, in 1953. Lamorisse&#8217;s feature concerns the wild horses that roam the Camargue in France, and the same horses are the subject of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6MRjGhEOtO8\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dream of the Wild Horses<\/em><\/a> (1960), a kind of oneiric sequel to <em>White Mane<\/em>. There&#8217;s no narrative, only a succession of slow-motion shots of horses fighting, running, and\u2014in a sequence you hope wasn&#8217;t set up for the cameras\u2014stampeding through a wall of flames. Of note for me is the score by Jacques Lasry which is performed on the Cristal Baschet, a unique instrument of glass and metal developed by Fran\u00e7ois and Bernard Baschet in the 1950s. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/08\/11\/cristalophonics-searching-for-the-cocteau-sound\/\">this post<\/a>.) Films such as this depend more than most on their musical accompaniment, and the eerie, rumbling timbres of Lasry&#8217;s music help sustain the dreamlike qualities of the piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denys Colomb de Daunant wrote and acted in Albert Lamorisse&#8217;s boy-meets-horse film, White Mane, in 1953. Lamorisse&#8217;s feature concerns the wild horses that roam the Camargue in France, and the same horses are the subject of Dream of the Wild Horses (1960), a kind of oneiric sequel to White Mane. There&#8217;s no narrative, only a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/10\/21\/dream-of-the-wild-horses-a-film-by-denys-colomb-de-daunant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dream of the Wild Horses, a film by Denys Colomb de Daunant&#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":[7,3],"tags":[7713,7715,7712,7714,1630],"class_list":["post-17357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-music","tag-albert-lamorisse","tag-bernard-baschet","tag-denys-colomb-de-daunant","tag-francois-baschet","tag-jacques-lasry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4vX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17357","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=17357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}