Four Nights of a Dreamer
 

PostED ON 14.10.2024

A young man rescues a young woman in the depths of amorous despair and immediately falls passionately in love with her.

Four Nights of a Dreamer de Robert Bresson © Del Orso / DR

Adapted from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's short story, White Nights, the film Four Nights of a Dreamer is a marvel of ancient modernity! It conveys the modern thanks to its urban production, which is strangely solemn and fluid, all for the better. It is ancient, in terms of the feelings that inhabit the protagonists and drive them to go in search of themselves... With an absolutely extraordinary sense of gestures, so characteristic of the Bresson style, the actors, whose faces look like paintings from the Middle Ages, draw near and touch one another. Their hands reach out, lie flat on a shoulder, or gently trace the contours of a face - all the delicate little movements that convey the beauty of love. The city of Paris by day or night plays a considerable role in the story, a colourful backdrop that gives the film another friendly tempo - the consumer society of the 1970s that Bresson never attempted to avoid, but instead, wholeheartedly embraced. Four Nights of a Dreamer is unforgettable...

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Screenings:

Quatre nuits d’un rêveur by Robert Bresson (Quatre nuits d’un rêveur, 1971, 1h22, VFSTA)
Institut Lumière (Villa) Mon 14 9:15am | Institut Lumière (Villa) Mon 14 9:30am |
Comœdia Thu 17 11:15am