Berlin International Film Festival 1971, Cannes Film Festival 2024
Perhaps Robert Bresson’s most underrated film, Four Nights of a Dreamer finds the ascetic master again adapting Fyodor Dostoevsky, here transposing the short story “White Nights” to contemporary Paris. Four Nights of a Dreamer captures a series of meetings across consecutive nights between Jacques and Marthe. Surrounded by the still-smoldering remains of May ’68, the two open their hearts to each other, conjuring the majesty and mystery of human connection, at once obscure and clarifying, direct and ambiguous.
Robert Bresson is one of the most revered and pivotal of French filmmakers. His films are infused with spiritual themes, often attempting to examine issues of redemption and salvation, and how the individual’s place in the broader society may affect the possibility of achieving either state. While his films are undeniably serious and frequently challenging, Bresson’s oeuvre is undeniably one of the most sublime in cinema history.
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