Four Nights of a Dreamer

Four Nights of a Dreamer (Quatre nuits d'un rêveur, 1972) is a French romance from Robert Bresson you can watch online on iFILM. A young painter named Jacques drifts through nighttime Paris and, on a bridge, talks a stranger out of jumping.

Her name is Marthe. A year ago her lover left to study at Yale, promising to return by a set date — and on the agreed night he never came. Jacques listens to her grief, tells her about himself, and over four nights a fragile closeness forms between them. Each keeps confessing a love, except they love different people. Isabelle Weingarten and Guillaume des Forêts play the leads.

Bresson loosely transplants Dostoevsky's White Nights onto the Parisian riverside: sparse dialogue, long walks along the Seine, music drifting up from passing tourist boats. A quiet, melancholy film for anyone who values French arthouse and isn't waiting for the plot to hurry. Stream Four Nights of a Dreamer online on iFILM.