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To begin I must confess that Bresson's cinema I think, in general, too overrated. With the exception of "A mort à condamné s'est echappe" and some specific moments in not all his movies, the feeling that leaves me is that does not pass the anecdotic. I can hardly find that transcendence in his filmography that much about. In this regard, "Four Nights of a Dreamer" would serve perfectly as an example of this. The usuals actors amateurs film's director, purposely sought to provide greater ease and credibility to the roles they embody. Who cares, when normally, have been well chosen? The problem is that the hand of Bresson also appears at many times (and here I apologize to its fans), that of an amateur.
Until there comes the first musical cut the average time of issue, the possibility that the drowsiness is large enough to fill you. Add brief entries that music, Brazilian suggestive rhythms mostly, are perhaps the best of the film. Especially the accompanying sequence of beautiful naked Isabelle Weingarten.
The monotony and coldness with which shows the feelings, so characteristic of a certain type of French cinema, does not contribute to give the story credibility so necessary in this type of romantic stories. Based on the same Dostoevsky's literary text, despite its excessive theatricality in the staging, Visconti got a work more credible and well prepared in his movie "Le Notti Bianche".
Anyway, I expected a little more of this title which, incidentally, is what I like along with the soundtrack. It is true that the atmosphere of defeat suffering the male lead in "Quatre nuits d'un rêveur" perhaps too reminded me of my own youth.
6/10
