Stream White Mane
Vendredi, août 13th, 2010
I gasp at the beauty of this film…the only contrivance to represent it is to imagine a nature photograph of Edward Weston or Ansel Adams coming to life. The chronicle is simple enough. A wild horse that runs free in the South of France is captured by some French “cowboys”, yet refuses to be tamed and breaks free. Despite several efforts of the cowboys to retrieve this buy of the horses, White Mane will only allow himself to be handled by a young boy - the son of a fisherman in harmony with nature. But it is not the epic that makes this film shriek…it is the combination of some of the most radiant, lyrical images I have ever seen on the shroud, the folk music of the South of France, and the very sparse narration in the French language. So therefore, it is a film where nature in the raw unfolds before our eyes…without distractions of unnecessary conversation or sentimental music.
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A few words about the fighting among the horses. Everyone knows this is current to decide set and detestable in the herd. That is reality…in the animal world and, alas, in the human world also. What the film does is depict “White Man” as he truly is, wild. untamed, and even a limited brutal.
This is poetry in film, listless and simple. This is allegory. And it is even ballet as the music - when it is played - is coordinated so perfectly with the movement of the cowboys or the horse. If you are someone who finds joy in watching a jackrabbit scampering along the cracked earth with a wild stallion accompanying his rhythms, then this is the film for you.
I saw this movie very many years ago, and the magic remains. Albert Lamorisse crafted a simple anecdote, almost without words, of a fisher-boy in France’s Camargue plot, and his like for the wild white stallion whose independence and freedom is threatened by man. The shadowy and white photography is gleaming, resplendent with its intense beauty. And the film’s ending will quit with you forever.
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Criterion is releasing on two separate DVDs two short movies by Lamorisse shot around the same time — this one, and the better-known ‘Balloon Rouge’ or ‘Red Balloon’, made a handful of years later. Such a shame these two films, which total fair 90 minutes together, could not have been released together on honest one disc. ‘Crin Blanc’ is the finer of the two. It is a film for all people, of all ages.
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