35mm

White Nights

Le notti bianche
Luchino Visconti
Part of

Visconti: A Retrospective

June 8 - August 15, 2018

Marcello Mastroianni is a lonely flâneur who meets and falls in love with fragile Maria Schell amidst the fog-shrouded night world of the Tuscan canal city of Livorno in Visconti’s ravishing adaptation of a classic short story by Dostoevsky.

DIRECTOR
Luchino Visconti
YEAR
1957
COUNTRY
Italy / France
RUNTIME
101 minutes
LANGUAGE
Italian with English subtitles
FORMAT
35mm
ORIGINAL TITLE
Le notti bianche

Visconti’s adaptation of a classic short story by Dostoevsky is a ravishing romantic reverie in incandescent black and white. Marcello Mastroianni is the lonely flâneur who meets and falls in love with a fragile young woman (Maria Schell) amidst the fog-shrouded night world of the Tuscan canal city of Livorno. The resulting tale of all-consuming love and loss is a swooning dream vision elevated to the nearly operatic by Visconti’s rapturously stylized direction. 35mm print from Istituto Luce Cinecittà.

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