Drama, Romance

FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER

1971
1 HR, 27 min
APR 29, 2026

Details

Released 1971, France, Italy

Drama, Romance

1 hour, 27 minutes

Janus Films

French French with English Subtitles

Starring

Isabelle Weingarten
Guillaume des Forêts
Jean-Maurice Monnoyer

Director

Robert Bresson

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The rarely screened Four Nights of a Dreamer is Robert Bresson’s great forgotten masterpiece, a stark yet haunting ode to romantic idealism and the capriciousness of love. Adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “White Nights,” Four Nights follows Jacques (Guillaume des Forêts), a lonely artist who roams bohemian Paris in search of the girl of his dreams. One night he saves a beautiful young woman, Marthe, from plunging into the Seine in despair over her rejection by an avoidant lover (Maurice Monnoyer). Jacques compassionately attempts to reunite Marthe with her beau, but his feelings for his new friend soon become less than platonic and his investment in her personal drama far from selfless.

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Film Stills

Full Cast

Isabelle Weingarten Marthe

Guillaume des Forêts Jacques

Jean-Maurice Monnoyer Marthe's Lover

Additional Credits

Robert Bresson Director

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Reviews

“It’s required viewing for any Bresson completist, and will prove fascinating to viewers with the patience for a nighttime drama about people who love foolishly, with all of their heart.”

Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com

“Time and again, it is shockingly beautiful, and I can think of nothing in recent films so ravishing as his strange romantic vision of the city, the river, the softly lighted tourist boats in the night.”

Roger Greenspun

New York Times