Quatre nuits d'un reveur [Four Nights of a Dreamer]

Robert Bresson (director)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (story)

Paris: Albina Productions, 1971. Original French theatrical release poster for the first of three films made by Robert Bresson in the 1970s. "Quatre nuits d'un reveur" is based on a short story by Dostoevsky titled "White Nights," originally published in the magazine "Annals of the Fatherland" in 1846.

A typically precise, stylized, and carefully choreographed outing by Bresson, rarely screened. The story concerns a four-day (or four-evening) relationship between a young artist and a young woman, one that begins with the man saving the woman as she contemplates jumping from a bridge.

24 x 32 inches. Rolled, on archival linen. Fine.


[Book #126562]