1957 · drama · romance
White Nights
Directed by Luchino Visconti1h 41m1957
A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.
Our read: White Nights (1957) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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