
Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (1971) aka Four Nights of a Dreamer
Directed by
Robert Bresson
Runtime: 87 min
Country: France
Language: French
Color: Color (Eastmancolor)
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067641/
The 'dreamer' is Jacques, a young painter, who by chance runs into Marthe as she's contemplating suicide on the Pont-Neuf in Paris. They talk, and agree to see each other again the next night. Gradually, he discovers that her lover promised to meet her on the bridge that night, and he failed to turn up. Over the next couple of nights, Jacques falls in love with her - but on the fourth night her original lover returns...
For director Robert Bresson, this was a much lighter film than his ususal fare, but he turns the story into a beautifully human meditation on love, loss and life.