Robert Bresson's "Four Nights of a Dreamer"
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Join us at Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive when we see French director Robert Bresson's rarely screen film, Four Nights of a Dreamer. NOTE: It is recommended that you purchase tickets in advance.
"A Parisian night on the Pont Neuf: a woman bereft attempts suicide. Fate intervenes as a young man, new to town, stops her. An ordinary love story begins. Yet through Robert Bresson, this well-worn tale is rewoven from the Fyodor Dostoyevsky original into a cinematic meditation on both romanticism and the ultimate subjectivity of love. Intimacy begun in a dramatic moment of life and death continues as Marthe and Jacques pursue dreams, each enmeshed in his or her own romantic reality. Bresson’s lean, austere style deeply etches their interlude: they are heard almost removed from context, and only what they see is seen." — Pacific Film Archive
Pacific Film Archive Tickets, Information, and Directions: https://bampfa.org/event/four-nights-dreamer
4:00 Meet at PFA's Box Office (2155 Center Street) to purchase or pick up tickets.
The film starts at 4:30.
6:00 After the film we will meet at Elaichi cafe on 2161 Allston Way for conversation.