White Nights

a very ordinary romance story, made interesting by sudden and brutal images of loneliness.

“the whole vista of my future had flashed before me so bleakly and so sadly, and i saw myself just as i am now exactly fifteen years later, only older, in the same room, just as lonely, with the same Matryona, who hasn't grown any wiser in all those years.”

nastenka spent a lot of her life envisioning her future the exact same way.

at first glance it's 19th century 500 days of summer, but after your first read it unfolds more like a charlie kaufman film