A woman, Marthe, is caught between two lovers. During the daytime scenes of the movie, Jacques works on his paintings.
At the present time, Marthe has learned that her lover returned to Paris several days ago and has made no attempt to contact her, leading to her despair and suicide attempt.
With Isabelle Weingarten, Guillaume des Forêts, Jean-Maurice Monnoyer, Giorgio Maulini. The film begins in Paris with Jacques, an unidentified young man, trying to hitchhike a ride. The beauty is in its simplicity of young lovers who really don't understand what love is.
another loose adaptation of Dostoevsky's White Nights (also adapted by Visconti's Le Notti Bianche), Four Nights of a Dreamer wedges itself with a modern twist spoken in French tongues. [5] In 1974, he moved from Paris to London, where he remained until March 1977, when he was offered a two-semester teaching position at the University of California, San Diego by Manny Farber. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Based on a short story by Dostoevsky titled "White Nights," originally published in the magazine "Annals of the Fatherland" in 1846. Jacques' story is also told in flashbacks at this time. I can handle the truth. The lover never writes back to Marthe, and she is devastated.
He loves the sound of his own voice so much he records himself saying various non sequiturs on his dictaphone, which he plays on loop as he paints. The next scene is of Marthe, standing at a bridge, at the brink of suicide. Part of his artistic process involves recording himself on a tape recorder telling the story of meeting Marthe and loving Marthe.
[10] It also includes works by important American directors (such as John Cassavetes and Jim Jarmusch) who were absent from the AFI list. [6] Rosenbaum then returned to New York, initially sharing an apartment with future Philadelphia Inquirer critic Carrie Rickey, a former student of Farber's. I'm somewhat astounded that the sum of sober persons in the film-watching world who have viewed Quatre nuits d'un reveur, (at least those still fit for youth's trials and love itself) haven't tattooed a likeness of Isabelle Weingarten and Guillaume des Forêts to the back of each hand in solemn symbolic tribute to the depth of love's impossibility for happiness without the concurrent bifurcated pain which is the first firm hint that we will all lose this championship of life itself in our eventual Zen-y demises, after which we join the mountains of ashes--even beside Young Werther's coal--riding wistfully upon those tar-blackened barges plying the reflecting waters of Arrondissemment V, Paris. View production, box office, & company info.
A typically precise, stylized, and carefully choreographed outing by Bresson, rarely screened. The 'dreamer' is Jacques, a young painter, who by chance runs into Marthe as she's contemplating suicide on the Pont-Neuf in Paris. “Lovers” or not so much acquaintances attempting to fall in love, surrounded by a world of happiness and joyful, adored people, trying to acclimatise to it as they figure their dissonance from this harmony.
Search for "Four Nights of a Dreamer" on Amazon.com, Title: The "other guy" who we get to see in the end is just a face in the crowd. Jacques acts as messenger between Marthe and her lover. Or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love American Movies, https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2018/07/true-believers/, Chicago Reader: Jonathan Rosenbaum bibliography, Jonathan Rosenbaum's 1000 Essential Films, 2007 video interview - Unseen Orson Welles - a Conversation With Jonathan Rosenbaum, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jonathan_Rosenbaum&oldid=974045038, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 August 2020, at 19:34.
The reproduction is grainy, but I’m still a novice when it comes to importing film frames to this site, so this will have to do. He travels to the countryside with a family and spends the day walking alone. List-o-Mania. He has also written the best-known analysis of Jim Jarmusch's film Dead Man; the volume includes recorded interviews with Jarmusch; the book places the film in the acid western subgenre. This is his Bond film.
Films similar to or like Four Nights of a Dreamer. While he paints, he plays his recordings. A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute. David, Louis Guitar, Christopher Hayward, Michel Magne, This page was last edited on 25 September 2020, at 09:05. The following night, which was the film’s final night of shooting, I wound up on a bateau mouche with Bresson and the small crew and a small performing bossa nova band and singer who play a major part in the film’s most memorable sequence, but this time it was only as an offscreen spectator. He attended Bard College, where he played piano in an amateur jazz ensemble that included future actors Chevy Chase as a drummer and Blythe Danner as a vocalist. Like in all other Bressonian films, the plot or character’s emotion are not conveyed via acting, but through the juxtaposition of image and sound. A Ruthless And Beautiful Approach To Dostoyevsky's White Nights By Robert Bresson Who Is Quickly Becoming One Of My Favorite French Directors. As a teenager, he attended The Putney School in Putney, Vermont, where his classmates included actor Wallace Shawn.
It sounds a little more blunt than it is, though.
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