Day For Night
The movie for people who love movies.
The leading lady is recovering from a nervous breakdown, another performer is soused on the set, trade unions threaten to walk, shooting must finish before the insurance lapses and a cat can't hit its mark. Is this any way to make a film? Mais oui!
Day For Night is Francois Truffaut's sly, humorous bouquet to movies and the people who make them, the Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language Film (1973) that speaks the language of everyone who loves movies. Featuring Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Valentina Cortese, Truffaut and others in an appealing ensemble, laced with incidents from Truffaut's life and set to Georges Delerue's exhilarating score, Day For Night is day-or-night joy.
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Great Look Into Filmmaking - nw_kiff
"Day For Night" is a humorous look into the world of making a movie, a world that seems bizarre and insane to everyone except those involved in the production. Sex, drugs, egos all run abundant. As Francois Truffaut, who directs and plays the fictional director in the film says, "Making a film is like a stagecoach ride in the old west. When you start, you are hoping for a pleasant trip. By the halfway point, you just hope to survive."Is cinema magic ? No, or else life is also magic - ClarkNova
This movie is not Truffaut’s best, but there is some interesting stuff in it. The characters are original and fascinating. Watch for Nathalie Bayes fabulous first major role. The films asks many questions. There is this relation between reality and cinema that is hard to define. Alphonse always goes to see movies when his job is done, maybe to escape his life that seems in a movie with its big caricatured ups and downs. Julie loves movies more than life and will even sleep with another man she doesn’t love to make sure that the movie will be completed. Her husband reacts like the perfect gentleman you won’t find in reality. So what is cinema and is life sometimes more magic than cinema ? Do we sometimes make cinema in our life ? This is truly a movie for those who love cinema and it is fun to see how they did it in those days.Dated but fun - rewriteman
Tame by today's understanding of inside movie making, Day for Night is still an enjoyable view if for no other reason than the on-screen pairing of the director and his alter ego Jean Pierre Leaud. Leaud of course stood in for Truffaut in his first films, including the inimitable 400 Blows, and to see them together is almost like the mirror scene in the Marx Brothers film where each brother plays the other. Jacquelene Bisset is at the peak of her beauty and career and holds this wacky look at inside a movie set together. It's not one of Truffaut's best but if you'd like to know more about what he went through to make his greater films, it's fun to reconnect with Day for Night.
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Great Look Into Filmmaking - nw_kiff
"Day For Night" is a humorous look into the world of making a movie, a world that seems bizarre and insane to everyone except those involved in the production. Sex, drugs, egos all run abundant. As Francois Truffaut, who directs and plays the fictional director ...Is cinema magic ? No, or else life is also magic - ClarkNova
This movie is not Truffaut’s best, but there is some interesting stuff in it. The characters are original and fascinating. Watch for Nathalie Bayes fabulous first major role. The films asks many questions. There is this relation between reality and cinema ...Dated but fun - rewriteman
Tame by today's understanding of inside movie making, Day for Night is still an enjoyable view if for no other reason than the on-screen pairing of the director and his alter ego Jean Pierre Leaud. Leaud of course stood in for Truffaut in his first films, ...