Mk2 Movies, the Paris-based outfit behind Justine Triet’s Oscar-nominated “Anatomy of a Fall,” is ready to revive Robert Bresson’s “4 Nights of a Dreamer,” a romantic drama which competed on the Berlinale in 1971 and disappeared from screens in 1985.

MK2 Movies, the division of a serious arthouse cinema chain in France, will digitize “4 Nights of a Dreamer” in 4K and can deliver it to international theatres in 2024.

“4 Nights of a Dreamer” is the tenth movie directed by Bresson and the one one which wasn’t restored. His different credit embody “Mouchette,” “Au Hasard Balthazar” and “Pickpocket.”

Impressed by Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel “White Nights,” “4 Nights of a Dreamer” revolves round a gathering on the Pont Neuf between a dreamy younger man and a distraught younger lady who will speak in confidence to one another over 4 nights. It stars Guillaume des Forêts, Isabelle Weingarten, Jean-Maurice Monnoyer. The movie was lensed by Pierre Lhomme with set design by Pierre Charbonnier.

“4 Nights of a Dreamer” is being restored underneath the supervision of Mylène Bresson, with Mk2 Movies at Éclair Classics in Paris and L.E. Diapason, with the assist of the Centre nationwide du cinéma et de l’picture animée (CNC). The brand new 4K grasp shall be accessible in spring.

“We want to warmly thank Mylène Bresson for her entrusting us with the movie rights and restoration work. It’s great when motion pictures by filmmakers of such stature grow to be seen once more to cinephiles the world over,” says Nathanaël Karmitz, MK2’s CEO.

Mk2 Movies additionally represents the worldwide rights to a few different movies by Robert Bresson, “Pickpocket “(1960, chosen for Competitors in Berlin), “The Trial of Joan of Arc” (1962, Particular Jury Prize at Cannes), and “Cash” (1983, Grand Prix for Inventive Cinema at  Cannes). MK2 Movies additionally received the very best restored movie award on the Venice Movie Competition for Shinji Somai’s “Transferring.”