NOTTI BIANCHE

The Criterion Collection. A chance encounter on a canal bridge results in a series of twilight rendezvous between a lonely city transplant (Mastroianni) and a sheltered woman (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.