White Nights (Le notti bianche)

10 Reasons why I adore Luchino Visconti's Le Notti Bianche: 1. It's the second radical film interpretation of a Fyodor Dostoyevsky story (in this case his short work White Nights) from the '50s, equal in quality to Akira Kurosawa's tremendous version of The Idiot…

trolleyfreak

Five reasons to watch Visconti's lightest and most tender romance movie: 1) Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 2) Nino Rota's mysterious score. 2) The most dream-like and romantic use of snow in a black-and-white feature. 4) Maria Schell's laugh. 5) Marcello Mastroianni's dance…

Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋

When you're lonely it's a simple thing to project all of your desires onto a person — perhaps a beautiful person you run into on a bridge — and call that love. Visconti's film isn't a tragic love story. Rather, it's a film about the comfort we find in our delusions and…

Eric Eidelstein

In “Le Notti Bianche,” the city unfolds for its central couple as if it was built specifically to contain their love. And it was.  Luchino Visconti’s adaption of a seminal Dostoevsky short story, “Bianche” depicts an encounter between a woman awaiting her missing…

theriverjordan

Le Notti Bianche understands something painfully true about love: that it can be the most beautiful thing you ever feel and the thing that can ruin you at the same time. Luchino Visconti treats romance not as fulfillment, but as longing stretched across empty streets,…

Edwin 🦦

"god bless you for the moment of happiness you gave me. even a moment's worth can last a lifetime." thank you luchino visconti i'm a sobbing mess who no longer believes in love

Holli

not realistic. no one would have ever friendzoned marcello mastroianni.

margherita ❤️‍🔥

if i were as stupidly sexy as marcello mastroianni was i'd charge people for breathing near me let's be very serious right now on here on this day

mary

- Now, I too can say I've been dancing. + Now, I too can say I've been happy.

Arash