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White Nights
May 16: 8:15 pm

In tribute to Silvano “Nano” Campeggi, who designed the poster for the film, we present one of Luchino Visconti’s most beautiful works.

White Nights is a fable about how discovering the ability to love can be better than being loved in return. This is the film that made Mastroianni a star—it was here that Fellini saw him and decided he’d be better for La Dolce Vita than Paul Newman.



White Nights
Le Notti Bianche
Luchino Visconti, Italy, 1957; 101m
Loosely adapted from a short story by Dostoevsky, White Nights is set in Italy and updated to the late ‘50s. Marcello Mastroianni plays Mario, a new arrival in town. He meets Natalia (Maria Schell), a troubled young woman locked in an unrequited love affair with an older man. The two start a tentative romance—but Natalia still clings to the hope that her “other” man will return.




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Wed May 16: 8:15