NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.

ADDITION: A&R Productions DVD (October 2022): Out of Italy we have a DVD of Robert Bresson's "Four Nights of a Dreamer" ("Quatre nuits d'un rêveur") - notably with optional English subtitles. The title has been elusive on digital and the non-English-friendly 2013 Blu-ray is now out-of-print. Thanks, again, to Louis for altering me to its existence.

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So, it looks like the same source (same few vertical scratches), also 1.66:1 - just in anamorphic SD resolution. It's a flat-line, high, bitrate of a single-layered DVD and I wasn't deterred by the presentation - appreciating the English translations of the French dialogue. The only extra is a gallery of images including posters.

Robert Bresson's "Four Nights of a Dreamer" is loosely based on a 1848 short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky entitled "White Nights". I liked TimeOut's description: "...story of a couple's chance encounter and the advance of their parallel obsessions over four successive nights. The hallucinatory light and color of Paris at night act as both mirror and landscape for their fragile relationship. Shot through with a mystical, almost frosty compassion, the film is rescued from occasional moments of pretension by the gentle eroticism and absolute conviction with which it is made." Bresson completists can see "Four Nights of a Dreamer" with English subtitles, albeit in the lower resolution of SD.

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On the Imagica Blu-ray (September 2017): From what I could glean from the Etanteje website, the backcover, and other web information - the HD source for this Blu-ray was taken from the restored print shown theatrically - as a re-release - in Japan in 2012. It was created from OCN, and supervised by the cinematographer Pierre Lhomme. It is on a single layered disc, 1080P and has a supportive bitrate. It is in and around 1.66:1 and looks just fine. Detail is decent, there is a thick film-like quality. There are two short sequences with vertical scratches but they were faint and of short duration. There is softness - probably inherent in the print - the dark scenes can be very dark but I wasn't displeased with the HD presentation. I'll mention this a couple of time - but this is in the original French language with removable Japanese subtitles. NOT English-friendly. 

Linear PCM 2.0 channel (24-bit) in the original French language and the sound quality is also acceptable with dialogue audible and clean (one or two instances of minor issue). The score is credited to Tunisian F.R. David, Louis Guitar (his only film credit), Christopher Hayward (his only film credit), and Michel Magne (some of the OSS 117 films, Vice and Virtue aka "Le vice et la vertu", Monsieur Gangster, Angélique, Angelique and the Sultan). Everything is authentically flat but carrying some depth via the uncompressed. There are optional Japanese (only) subtitles and my Oppo has identified it as being a region 'A'-locked disc.

Gary Tooze