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Day for Night (French: La Nuit américaine, lit. 'American Night') is a 1973 romantic comedy-drama film co-written and directed by François Truffaut.The metafictional and self-reflexive film chronicles the troubled production of a melodrama, and the various personal and professional challenges of the cast and crew.
- 839,583 admissions (France)
- Marcel Berbert
- $700,000
- Georges Delerue
Sep 7, 1973 · Day for Night: Directed by François Truffaut. With Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Dani, Alexandra Stewart. A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
- (24K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- François Truffaut
- 1973-09-07
Dec 26, 1997 · The movie is narrated by the Truffaut character. “Shooting a movie is like a stagecoach trip,” he says. “At first you hope for a nice ride. Then you just hope to reach your destination.”. At night he has a dream, in black and white of course, in which he’s a small boy going downtown after dark.
Audience Reviews for Day for Night May 01, 2016 Considered one of Truffaut's finest films and an homage to the filmmaking process, this movie is about a French cast and crew in the process of ...
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- François Truffaut
- PG
- Jacqueline Bisset
Day for Night. This affectionate farce from François Truffaut about the joys and strife of moviemaking is one of his most beloved films. Truffaut himself appears as the harried director of a frivolous melodrama, the shooting of which is plagued by the whims of a neurotic actor (Jean-Pierre Léaud), an aging but still forceful Italian diva ...
- Julie Baker
Day For Night (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Meet Pamela A famous Francois Truffaut opening, with Truffaut playing the director of the movie which is the basis for the story, Jean-Pierre Aumont and Jean-Pierre Lead his male leads, playing father and son, young Nathalie Baye and Dani on the crew, Jean Champion the producer, in Day For Night, 1973.
