Day for Night

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Day for Night

PG

1973

2h 0m

Comedy

Drama

Romance

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A film director (François Truffaut) tries to get his movie made while observing the real-life dramas in his actors' lives. Fading icon Severine (Valentina Cortese) forgets her lines when she drinks, while her co-star, Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Aumont), is fixated on his lover's imminent arrival. Meanwhile, insecure young star Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Léaud) has emotional outbursts, yet seems well-balanced compared to Julie (Jacqueline Bisset), a British actress recuperating from a nervous breakdown.

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A sweet counterpoint to Godard's Contempt, Truffaut's Day for Night is a congenial tribute to the self-afflicted madness that is making a movie.

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Pauline Kael

The New Yorker

01/20/2022

Day for Night is tender but too fan-magazinish in approach, too tenderly shallow for its own good.

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Judith Crist

New York Magazine/Vulture

06/11/2020

[Day for Night is] universal in its sheer humanism, its exuberance, its tragic-comic view of people and events, and completely irresistible in its sheer love of the life it leads.

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Justin Chang

Los Angeles Times

05/03/2018

A glorious ode to the fleeting, addictive and irreplaceable joys of cinematic collaboration...

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Dilys Powell

Sunday Times (UK)

08/08/2022

It has been a pleasure; one is sorry it is over; and I at any rate come out feeling positively good-tempered myself.

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Romola Costantino

The Sun-Herald (Australia)

03/07/2022

Witty, ironic, tragic, and wonderfully natural, this is a snatch of unmistakably true experience from a master who knows the film world in depth.

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Janet Maslin

Boston Phoenix

10/08/2021

Truffaut's Day For Night is a wonderfully funny evocation of the psychic netherworld in which film crews operate.

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Synopsis

A film director (François Truffaut) tries to get his movie made while observing the real-life dramas in his actors' lives. Fading icon Severine (Valentina Cortese) forgets her lines when she drinks, while her co-star, Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Aumont), is fixated on his lover's imminent arrival. Meanwhile, insecure young star Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Léaud) has emotional outbursts, yet seems well-balanced compared to Julie (Jacqueline Bisset), a British actress recuperating from a nervous breakdown.

Director: François Truffaut
Producer: Marcel Berbert
Screenwriter: Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman, François Truffaut
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Les Films du Carrosse
Rating: PG
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Original Language: Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 7, 1973, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): May 13, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $17.8K
Runtime: 2h 0m
Sound Mix: Mono
Aspect Ratio: 35mm