Part of the BAMcinématek series Bresson
Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:50, 9:15pm
Directed by Robert Bresson
With Guillaume des Forêts, Isabelle Weingarten
(1971) 87min, 35mm
Bresson’s spectrally beautiful adaptation of Dostoevsky’s Paris-set short story “White Nights” chronicles the chance encounter of a young man and a lovelorn girl. Over the course of three consecutive nights, she relates to him her story of unrequited love and he falls in love with her. “The intense covert eroticism of the earlier Bresson is here overt and even lyrically sustained. Its effect is inescapable in every private embrace and public encounter, in the sights and sounds that fill the city seemingly made for love” (Roger Greenspun, The New York Times).
