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Marcello Mastroianni, as a lonely city transplant, and Maria Schell, as a sheltered girl haunted by a lover’s promise, meet by chance on a canal bridge and begin a tentative romance that quickly entangles them in a web of longing and self-delusion. Luchino Visconti’s LE NOTTI BIANCHE, an exquisite adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s “White Nights,” translates this romantic, shattering tale of two restless souls into a ravishing black-and-white dream. (Note courtesy of Janus Films.) DIR/SCR Luchino Visconti; SCR/PROD Suso Cecchi d’Amico, from the short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky; PROD Franco Cristaldi. Italy/France, 1957, b&w, 101 min. In Italian with English subtitles. NOT RATED