Four Nights of a Dreamer
– Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woma..
Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.
02 Feb 1972
French
Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson, Fyodor Dostoevsky (short story "White Nights")
Isabelle Weingarten, Guillaume des Forêts, Jean-Maurice Monnoyer, Giorgio Maulini
The 'dreamer' is Jacques, a young painter, who by chance runs into Marthe as she's contemplating suicide on the Pont-Neuf in Paris. They talk, and agree to see each other again the next night. Gradually, he discovers that her lover promised to meet her on the bridge that night, and he failed to turn up. Over the next couple of nights, Jacques falls in love with her - but on the fourth night her original lover returns...
2 wins & 1 nomination.
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