Luchino Visconti - White Nights (1957)

White Nights / Le Notti Bianche Directed By : Luchino Visconti Year : 1957 Language : Italian Subtitles : English File Name .............: Le Notti Bianche.avi File Size (in bytes) ..: 733,984,768 bytes Runtime (# of frames) .: 01:41:43 (146320 frames) Video Codec ...........: XviD Frame Size ............: 592x368 () [=] [=1.609] FPS ...................: 23.976 Video Bitrate .........: 505 kb/s Bits per Pixel ........: 0.097 bpp B-VOP, N-VOP, QPel, GMC ......: []...[N-VOP]...[]...[] Audio Codec ...........: 0x0055(MP3, ISO) MPEG-1 Layer 3 Sample Rate ...........: 48000 Hz Audio bitrate .........: 61 kb/s [1 channel(s)] VBR audio Interleave ............: 42 ms No. of audio streams ..: 1 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. Visconti\'s version of the Dostoievsky story - about the chance encounter of a couple as she is waiting in vain for her lover, and the obsessive, panic-stricken relationship which then develops between them - later filmed by Bresson as Four Nights of a Dreamer. Visconti traps his characters (three excellent performances) within a claustrophobic canal-side set, and the film is a series of brief walks, chases, attempted escapes, always frustrated. Shot as neo-realist high tragedy, the film offers its characters only one strange moment of escape from their night-time obsessions - a raucous, sexual, subversive scene in a dance-hall. Then the snow comes down, and with it a chilly desperation about the extent of human self-delusion. - CA ********************************* FREAKYFLICKS ********************************** Freakyflicks is a free and open community dedicated to preserving and sharing cinematic art in the digital era. Our goal is to disseminate such works of art to the widest audience possible through the channels provided by P2P technology. The Freakyflicks collection is limited to those films that have played an exceptional role in the history of cinema and its progression in becoming a great art. Films that are usually described as classic, cult, arthouse and avant-garde. If you have films that fit this description feel free to share them and participate in our community. All you need do is include this tag in your upload and join us at the forum to announce your release. www.freakyflicks.tk \'If we all seed just 1:1, give at least what we take, this torrent will NEVER DIE\'

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overlook (2006-10-19)

cheers

shoeshoe (2006-10-20)

Thank you for including the video information! That makes it easy to tell if this will play on my standalone before I download it - I wish more people would do that.

HenryHenryHenry (2008-03-06)

awesome, I didn't expect to find this. thanks!

zeinabqureshi (2008-03-21)

Thanks a lot for the share...
And you've got real style, uploading films like those..

luther_b (2008-05-23)

Thank you Iggy. You indeed are a missionary of film culture :-)