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“I live on the quays. The nightlife on the banks of the Seine, the illuminated boats passing by in summer – these sights are familiar to me. In this film I wanted to revive them, to communicate the effect they have had on me.” – Robert Bresson

Returning once more to the works of Dostoevsky, Bresson updates the Russian author’s short story ‘White Nights’ (previously adapted by Luchino Visconti in 1957) to contemporary France. After Jacques stops Marthe from jumping from the Point Neuf into the Seine, she explains that she is despairing at the absence of her lover, who has returned to Paris after a year away but is yet to contact her. Jacques offers to deliver letters from Marthe to her lover on her behalf and they continue to meet. Over the course of four nights, the two roam the streets together and form a bond born of shared loneliness. Newly restored and available again for the first time in years, Four Nights of a Dreamer is a sumptuous romance infused with poetic melancholy and an indelible sense of longing.

Ages 15+