It is sometimes said that Bresson shifted emphasis from the metaphysical toward the sensual and even erotic over the course of his career. Of no film is that more true than in Four Nights of a Dreamer, another of Bresson’s Dostoevsky adaptations, after Une femme douce and the very Dostoevskian Pickpocket. The film takes place in a dreamy, beatnik Paris where a bohemian young man and a lonely young woman strike up a friendship. Bresson's quasi-Romantic side emerges through languid nighttime sequences and long takes as the young lovers stroll the streets and bridges of Paris. The four nights of the film’s title represent an interlude of tender happiness, a break from the darkening mood of Bresson’s previous work, before the last three films’ respective descents into Hell. – DP

Look for Claire Denis who appears as an extra walking along the Seine; at the time, she was a student of the film’s extraordinary cinematographer, Pierre Lhomme.