Four Nights of a Dreamer (Quatre nuits d'un reveur)

Lonely hearts search for love, but not real, true love; merely the idea of love. Their idealism is what drives them. Lost souls rendezvous, make gestures of longing and discuss their lives both past and present. And yet, when what they are both sure of is brought into…

Jerry

Youth romanticism in a world that might have no future. The tension between the genuine mystery of fiction, the meeting of the young lovers promise, all those lovely night scenes, the near musical structure, those seductive surfaces, and Bresson's materialism is among the…

Filipe Furtado

No credits whatsoever, the film starts right away.
 By the side of a freeway entrance:
 A young man hitchhiking, trying to leave the city. Finally, a car stops.
 “Where are you going?”
 The young man, instead of an answer, just raises his arms, then shrugs his…

Wim Wenders

Four Nights of a Creep

Laia

“I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything." -…

V. Lepistö

What at first seems like a love story seems to reveal itself as a critique of art in this. A woman, Marthe, is caught between two lovers. One is a painter who uses his own thoughts on her as a muse to make abstract paintings, and the other is a man who took her to see a…

Sally Jane Black

Marthe, the beta version of Summer (from 500 Days of Summer)

Zegan

This was, maybe somewhat improbably, the first Robert Bresson film I ever saw (via a severely degraded VHS rip). Despite the subpar quality, it has remained my favorite Bresson film ever since, I suspect at least in part due to the fact that it stands as something of an…

orson houellebecq

the most mysterious and comedic of bresson films -- a midnight musical-memorial to art, love, and other yearnings of damaged hearts. four nights is where he leans into the meditative rhythms of life rather than the prison-world of his 50s/60s period -- perhaps this newfound…

comrade_yui