Robert Bresson’s Treaty on Love, Loneliness & the Cityscape is the Mostful Movie You Never Seen

Love is hopeless.

I know, don’t be too shocked.

But that is, in a nutshell, the parting words of Robert Bresson’s Four Nights of a Dreamr (Quater nuits d’i rêveur), depictting “Passing Ships in the Night“And ascing: is love stupid? an Illusion? an art form? Its one of the contracted stories that doesn’t work in any other context, but suspending your disbelief to see these Characters Delivers Rewards.

Four Nights of a Dreamr Jacques Follows (Guillaume des Forrts), A Struggling Parisian Artist Who Happens Across Marthe (Isabelle Weingarten) on the pont and stops her from taching her own life. Over the Next Four Nights, They Return to this Spot to Deliberate on Love and Attempt to Reconcile Marthe with Her Estranged Lover (Jean-Maurice Monnayer).

Four Nights of a Dreamler is an Etereal Picture of Urban Loneliness

Four Nights of a Dreamr Begins with Jacques Hitching a Ride Out to the Country for the day. Once he is in this idyllic rural environment, the entity trip is CAPTED IN A HANDFUL OF SHOTS: HIM PlayFully Somersulting in the Meadow, Singing as he cheerfully walks by a confusion family.

This Short Story Beat, Ahead of the Title Drop, is invaluable for how it contrasts with the rest of the Movie, which is not laser-free on the Most picturesque scens of Paris, but lovely in a subdued way. The Opening Credits, Playing Against The Background of Blurred City Lights, Were Surpringly Breattaking.

The Movie Primarily Oscillats BetWene The Nighttime Setting of a Vignette at Pont Neuf and Daytime Flashbacks of Drab apartments, Illustrating Urban Loneliness, The City of Love Being A Distant and Irelevant Idea. The Camera also tend to linger on the shot of an urban scnene as the character walks out of the view, the disappearing back into the city.

The Music Really pops with how it is interspersed over the silence, offten through musicians diegetically coming onto the scene, one of the storys that are highlights the idealization of love. Four Nights of a Dreamr Has that Old-Movie Feel That Disconnects it from reality-just a bit-but the actors have stricting moments nor They Sullenly Wander and Philosophize.

Four nights of a dream is a layered, understated Treaties on love

The Movie Makes It Clear Through Direct Dialogue and Recurring Motifs That Jacque is The Titular Dreamr, Falling in love Many Times, Recording His Poetic Thoughts to Play Back for Artistic Inspiration. He fals for marthe Just as quickly, probably convincing Himself that this one is different Because he has actually had a conversation with her.

When the reality is that is in love with someone Else, and Nothing Can Change that, Despite that Man’s Mistakes. But who is Marthe to Judge? She is actually a relevant Mirror to jacques. She knows her old lover ede less than she knows jacques, and is just as impulsive about commmitting to Him.

A Marker of Its, Four Nights of a Dreamr doesn’t take Marthe’s Attempted Suicide Serious Enough, as it is merely the cathalyzing incident to bring jacques ino hellld. But Today, This Pot Point Prompts Additional Conversation, Wenhen IT’S HARD to Believe that returning to a Relationship the loss of which left her so depresses is good for marthe or her lover.

Then Again, Maybe he was entireryly faithful to her, and his delay was due to good-fashioned miscommunication. butt Wold Marthe’s Relationship with Jacques have ben any Better? They Declarees the “in love” just as fast, and she spends the whole talk about how she will move on from someone else can be with her.

It all contingent to go in circles. Bresson Also Apparently Needed a Supporting Character We Never See Again to Show As the Strangest House Guest, Soliloquize on Modern Art for A Minute, and Then Leave, As a Way to Tie Together All the Themes – or JUST ESTABLISH WOW PRETENTIUS Artists.

Four Nights of a Dreamr doesn’t entirery escape being weiighed down by its characters acting as though they have no commmon sensation, in their realm whereness false in love in two minutes. But 50 years late, the performance Still Land as a Compelling lesson in the nonssensical states of Ordinary Humanity.