Quatre nuits d’un rêveur [Four Nights of a Dreamer] **** (1971, Isabelle Weingarten, Guillaume des Forêts, Jean-Maurice Monnoyer) – Classic Movie Review 10,917

Marthe: ‘What’s the matter?’
Jacques: ‘I love you. That’s the matter.’

Writer-director Robert Bresson’s beautiful, miniaturist 1971 French Eastmancolor drama film Quatre nuits d’un rêveur [Four Nights of a Dreamer] is loosely based on the 1848 short story White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and stars Isabelle Weingarten.

Guillaume des Forêts stars as young painter dreamer Jacques, who sees Marthe (Isabelle Weingarten) standing on the Pont Neuf in Paris and stops her as she is contemplating suicide and urges her back onto the street. They sit by the bridge, talk about their lives and the film cuts to flashbacks.

It features Isabelle Weingarten as Marthe, Guillaume des Forêts as Jacques, Maurice Monnoyer as Lover, Lidia Biondi as Marthes mother, Patrick Jouanné as Gangster and Jérôme Massart as Jacques’ friend.

It is a version of Luchino Visconti’s Le Notti Bianche [White Nights] (1957).

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