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Here is an illuminating meditation on favorite filmmaker(one of them) Robert Bresson’s underseen and under appreciated adaptation and reinterpretation of Dostoevsky’s “White Nights” by Chris Marino for Romanticon.
Also a meditation on adaptation as such, love, desire, lack, and longing. Rilkean film criticism.
Chris Marino anatomizes Robert Bresson’s “Four Nights of A Dreamer” in today’s Romanticon. Bresson translates Dostoevsky’s early and romantic “White Nights” into another register, both Rilkean and Lacanian, in which love resides in the lack, the longing, and the ideal:
“In ‘White Nights,’ love is a harmonious togetherness, an experience of frictionle…
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