"In the trembling of a leaf," says Baudelaire, "in the color of a blade of grass, in the shape of clover, in the buzzing of a bee, in the sparkle of a drop of dew, in the sighing wind, in the vague fragrance coming out of the woods, an entire world of inspirations is produced, a magnificent and colorful parade of disorganized and rhapsodic thoughts".
There is something like a sighing wind, rising, falling, and the streetlamps brighten, dim again.
Desks and chairs spiral skywards to form tangled, Magritte-like shapes occupied by black-clad figures who imitate sighing winds or flapping birds' wings.
Mr. Dumont's latest movie, "Hors Satan" ("Outside Satan"), is full of Bressonian music, provided by a sound mix that emphasizes footsteps trudging along rural roads, the heavy breathing of bodies in motion, the song of birds and the sighing of wind.
You could hear only the wind sighing off the Hudson.
All that could be heard was the gentle sighing of the wind through the grasses.
A bit of concrete, and lousy green shrubs, and wet litter, and a nasty little wind sighing more loudly through the walkway as darkness falls.
Nor are the barking of a dog, the bleating of goats or the wind sighing in the branches of the gigantic pine that is the film's totem and tragic hero.
At around that age, too, she had what she described as "my first conscious feeling of an outside sadness", as she stood on the long white road that ran past the Outram swamp and heard the wind sighing in the telephone wires.
Instead of a musical soundtrack there is, for the most part, the sighing of the wind in the trees, the rumbling of freight trains and trucks and, sometimes, the absent-minded humming of Michelle Williams, who plays Wendy, a young woman drifting through Oregon and Washington on her way to Alaska.
And so it is with all the diverse triggers of pleasure and memory in each encounter with the world's oldest national park: the smell of the first drops of a summer thunderstorm on a dusty footpath, the ratchet of grasshoppers, the wind sighing in pines, and the waves breaking on the beaches of Yellowstone Lake.
