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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780030114
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780030117
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 12, 2005
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 36916
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: May 28, 1961
Editorial Review:
Description:
A chance encounter on a canal bridge results in a series of twilight rendezvous between a lonely city transplant (Marcello Mastroianni) and a sheltered woman (Maria Schell) haunted by a lover’s promise. Their hesitant courtship soon entangles both of them in a web of longing and self-delusion. Adapted from the Fyodor Dostoyevsky short story, director Luchino Visconti’s Le notti bianche—shot in ravishing black and white—is a romantic, shattering tale of the restlessness of dreamers.
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Rating:  - Excellent
Luchino Visconti's 1957 film, Le Notti Bianche (White Nights), winner of the Silver Lion Award at that year's Venice Film Festival, and adapted from a Fyodor Dostoevsky story of the same name, is not quite a great film- for it lacks any great nor new ideas, but it's a very good film that uses the elaborate Hollywood style sets of that era, crafted by Enzo Eusepi on a Cinecittá sound stage that is manifestly artificial, to create a very un-Hollywoodian tale of love, especially in its seemingly dour ... Read More
Rating:  - Le Notti Bianche
Based on a Dostoevsky short story, Visconti's stark, stunningly composed film lays bare all the core truths about the risks of love. Schell's Natalia is maddeningly emotional, basically a child when it comes to male/female relations. She's devoted to Mario, and could learn to love him, but she still hasn't gotten over the tenant, commandingly played by Marais (via flashbacks). Watch this tender romance and learn how it all turns out..
Rating: - Sometimes, we use to cry the lack of things that never have been ours!
"White nights" is one of the most egregious films of Visconti, filled of dark poetry and sense of eternity around this feeling that for many people seem to be denied: love.
A cold evening, a man meets a woman who is crying due she belies firmly around the promise of a sailor, who swore her, she would return in a year but the year has elapsed and she knows nothing about him,. Meanwhile our confident interlocutor falls in love with her until the vanished man reappears on stage.
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Rating: - magnificent!
The master director, Visconti, does it again--another cinematic splendor in "White Nights"--
a must see for film lovers. The performances are superb especially by
Mr. Mastroianni playing the hopeless romantic--
highly recommended!
Rating: - Visconti + Dostoyevsky = One of the Best Adaptations Ever
Lucino Visconti's "White Nights" (1957) - is an engaging, uplifting, and compelling screen adaptation of Dostoyevsky's short story. I applaud to Visconti's masterful and elegant direction - everything is exquisite in his masterpiece. The settings came from a fairy tale - he moved his heroes to the dream like city that looked very much like Venice - with its canals and bridges. Original story took place in 19th century St. Petersburg - which always has been nicknamed "The Northern Venice". The film is set ... Read More
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