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Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.

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White Nights, distilled — Dostoevsky wrote it, Visconti embraced the romanticism, Robert Bresson makes it a sardonic beating around the bush. His dreamer is some stand-in for Jean-Pierre Léaud called Jacques (Guillaume des Forêts), who thumbs a ride and shrugs when asked of his destination, then, feeling happy in the meadow, turns a cartwheel. He spots grave, caped Marthe (Isabelle Weingarten) by the edge of the Pont Neuf; she removes her shoes and stares into the water below, Jacques halts the suicide, she steps back and puts her shoes on. “My story? I have no story,” he says. “Histoire de Jacques” flashes on the screen, a knowing serving of Truffaut — Jacques spots a looker through the shopping window, follows her through the streets only to turn 180° as he passes another girl, who hops a bus and disappears. An even richer send-up pivots Marthe’s story, which sends her to a movie premiere courtesy of her boarder (Maurice Monnoyer), a thriller that has the hero shot in the head yet still able to lavishly pull out a pic of his beloved and give it a final smooch (“We have fallen into a trap,” she whispers to her mother, whose face streams with tears). Bresson provides prismatic views of the heroine’s nakedness before her mirror, segueing into her love vow to Monnoyer, delineated as a remembrance of The Awful Truth. The barge propelled by bossa nova gives a rare instance of the auteur sitting back and enjoying a performance, for the rest he’s implacable about the characters’ dreams. Jacques murmurs into a recorder about the purity of love and even plays the tape in his breast pocket so that the girl’s name palpitates like his heart, but the truth is that he cannot give himself over to emotion like Marthe — he resents and envies her wholehearted stance because his is only a notional one, love “with no one, an idea, the woman in my dream.” Bresson rounds out his leveling comedy with shaggy troubadours and painterly jibes (which vexed Manny Farber), leaving romance disembodied and the hero bent over his canvas, waiting to be picked up again twenty years later by Leos Carax. Cinematography by Pierre Lhomme. With Lidia Biondi, Patrick Jouanné, and Jérôme Massart.

Quatre.nuits.d'un.reveur.1971.576p.BluRay.DD1.0.x264-KG.mkv

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish

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Synopsis
A very personal interpretation, to say the least, of the passion of the Christ According to St. John. (imdb)

By writing, filming, discovering “The truth about the imaginary passion of a stranger”, I wanted to give back to the Scripture of the Gospel of John its original modernity in a modern cinematographic language. One early morning, on a wooden cross at the entrance of a village in Provence, Pourrières, a girl, stupid or enlightened, discovers a dead man, crucified. We are in 1977. Can we in 1977 listen to the words of Jesus and hear them? To what possible options does the Man suffering and arming himself offensively with the Word refer?
Marcel Hanoun

La vérité sur l'imaginaire passion d'un inconnu (Marcel Hanoun, 1974).mkv

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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Fresh from the tangled dramas of two temporarily halted film productions—including his collaboration with Coppola—Wenders used the cinematic quagmires as fodder for a film about filmmaking. Patrick Bauchau, a Wenders-like German arthouse director, is in the midst of making a black-and-white existential science-fiction feature called The Survivors in Portugal when his funding from a US studio is suddenly cut. The lull in production allows the cast and crew—which features Viva, Robert Kramer and Samuel Fuller—to ponder their relationships to the film and indulge in philosophical rambles and wandering detours, biding their time as needs, both creative and practical, float to the surface. Austerely zooming in and out of narrative focus, with an eye on both Hollywood noir and European arthouse, The State of Things meditatively and wryly captures little truths of cinema’s strange dimension. As Fuller’s cinematographer states, “Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.”

Bonus Features
Feature-length audio commentary by director Wim Wenders (German)
Deleted Scenes (27:47)
Interview with Roger Willemsen (German) (17:21)
Theatrical Trailer (3:33)

3.51GB | 2h 01mn | 956×576 | mkv

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Language:English with some French+commentary
Subtitles:German

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