White Nights (Visconti, 1957): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 12pm
This 4K premiere, also screening on January 7th, is part of the Luchino Visconti season at BFI Southbank. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Long dismissed as a footnote to Luchino Visconti’s career, this 1957
film, from the Dostoyevsky story, now seems to be a crucial turning
point, the link between Visconti’s early neorealist manner and the
obsessive stylization of his late films. Shot on forthrightly false sets
entirely within a studio, the film brings a lonely stranger (Marcello
Mastroianni, in one of his first important parts) together with a
surrealistically detached woman (Maria Schell) for a brief, enigmatic
affair. Robert Bresson treated the same material in his Four Nights of a Dreamer; curiously, it became one of Bresson’s most socially oriented films, while this is one of Visconti’s least.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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