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Guillaume des Forêts, Isabelle Weingarten, Maurice Monnoyer, Lidia Biondi, Patrick Jouanne

Four Nights of a Dreamer is a loose adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novella White Nights, with the action transposed from 19th century Russia to modern-day France. One night, Jacques (Guillaume Des Forets... read more read more...), a young man with artistic aspirations, sees a girl (Isabelle Weingarten) trying to commit suicide by jumping from a bridge. When he prevents her from jumping, Marthe tells him that she has become desperate waiting for her lover, who left her almost a year ago but promised to return. Jacques asks Marthe to meet him by the bridge the next night and the girl agrees. They spend the following three nights wandering through Paris, and Jacques tries in vain to cure Marthe of the memories of her elusive lover. The same story was previously filmed by Luchino Visconti as Le Notti Bianche. ~ Yuri German, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 27 min.

Directed by: Robert Bresson

Release Date: November 22, 1972

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  • arashxak
    July 15, 2009
    arashxak
    Bresson's overlooked adaptation of Dostoyevsky's White Nights, A bit more accessible than his other works that I've seen, Has some interesting moments but overall I have mixed feelings, It may a need a rewatch

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Roger Greenspun
April 8, 2006
Roger Greenspun, New York Times

Time and again, it is shockingly beautiful, and I can think of nothing in recent films so ravishing as his strange romantic vision of the city, the river, the softly lighted tourist boats in the night. Full Review

Dave Kehr
April 8, 2006
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

In the secular turn Bresson reveals an unexpected sense of humor and worldly irony. Full Review

Tim Brayton
February 5, 2012
Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy

Gone is the blistering, fatalistic Catholicism for which Bresson is famous, to be replaced with an unusual sort of humanism that is cynical but quirky, detached but sincere. Full Review

Fernando F. Croce
February 6, 2010
Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

Dostoevsky wrote it, Visconti embraced the romanticism, Robert Bresson makes it a sardonic beating around the bush Full Review

August 28, 2006
TV Guide's Movie Guide

This fascinating feature by master director Bresson adapts Dostoyevsky's story White Nights and puts it in Paris in the modern age. Full Review

April 8, 2006
Time Out

The film is rescued from occasional moments of pretension by the gentle eroticism and absolute conviction with which it is made. Full Review

Dennis Schwartz
April 4, 2006
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Bresson is at his cynical best. Full Review

M. C. Zenner
April 8, 2006
M. C. Zenner, Senses of Cinema

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