White Nights
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Time Out says
Visconti's version of the Dostoievsky story - about the chance encounter of a couple as she is waiting in vain for her lover, and the obsessive, panic-stricken relationship which then develops between them - later filmed by Bresson as Four Nights of a Dreamer. Visconti traps his characters (three excellent performances) within a claustrophobic canal-side set, and the film is a series of brief walks, chases, attempted escapes, always frustrated. Shot as neo-realist high tragedy, the film offers its characters only one strange moment of escape from their night-time obsessions - a raucous, sexual, subversive scene in a dance-hall. Then the snow comes down, and with it a chilly desperation about the extent of human self-delusion.Author: CA
Release details
UK release:
1957
Duration:
105 mins
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Cast:
Jean Marais, Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, Clara Calamai
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Screenwriter:
Luchino Visconti, Suso Cecchi D'Amico
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