Day for Night

Watch: Day for Night

Unrated

10/24/19731h 56m

Premiere Release (US)

~ A movie for people who love movies. ~

Overview:

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

Director:

François Truffaut

Status:

Released

Language:

French

Buget:

$700,000.00

Revenue:

$850,000.00

Key words:

lovesickness
movie business
nice
alcoholic
extramarital affair
making of
insurance agent
film director

Cast

Jacqueline Bisset

~ as ~

Julie Baker

Valentina Cortese

~ as ~

Séverine

Dani

~ as ~

Liliane, the Trainee Script Girl

Alexandra Stewart

~ as ~

Stacey

Jean-Pierre Aumont

~ as ~

Alexandre

Jean Champion

~ as ~

Bertrand, the Producer

Jean-Pierre Léaud

~ as ~

Alphonse

François Truffaut

~ as ~

Ferrand, the Director

Niké Arrighi

~ as ~

Odile, the Makeup Artist

Nathalie Baye

~ as ~

Joelle, the Script Girl

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
7
It's quite hard to succinctly review this Truffaut comedy - there is just so much going on. Essentially, Jacqueline Bisset ("Julie") is brought to Nice to star in a movie about a British woman who is married to a Frenchman. She comes to meet his family and promptly falls in love with her husband's father and so leaves him to shack up with his dad. It turns out, as the production progresses that the producer "Bertrand" (Jean Champion) and the director "Ferrand" (Truffaut himself) have to deal with an whole gamut of issues as the cast - all assembled in a small hotel - come with more baggage than the Queen Mary. "Julie" is recovering from a failed marriage and a nervous breakdown; "Séverine" (Valentina Cortese) is having an affair - but with a bottle, and Jean-Pierre Léaud steals the film as the petulant and high-maintenance "Alphonse". It reminded me a little of Fellini's "8½" from ten years earlier, another behind the scenes as a movie is made story - but it could hardly be more different. Here, the cast and the crew could not have been more dysfunctional - a trait of the creative, I believe - but in the end somehow or other there is a chance the film might actually get made! It is good fun, and the odd contribution from Jean-Pierre Aumont help keep this 2 hour extravaganza moving along entertainingly. Georges Delerue's jaunty score compliments the lovely open-ness of this production, and I really enjoyed this film.