Not quite horseplay: on Of Horses and Men

Jean-Luc Godard once famously asserted that Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar was “the world in an hour and half.” On that occasion, human nature was presented courtesy of the stoic, noble gaze of that film’s eponymous donkey and the same conceit is adopted — quite literally — in the wonderfully unusual slice of life that is Of Horses and Men.