Day for Night

"A movie for people who love movies."

1973 1h 56m FR

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7.8

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98%

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★7.8TMDB · 682🍅98%Rotten Tomatoes★8IMDB · 26,029

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Synopsis

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A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

“A movie for people who love movies.”

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Cast

Jacqueline Bisset
Julie Baker
Valentina Cortese
Séverine
Dani
Liliane, the Trainee Script Girl
Alexandra Stewart
Stacey
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Alexandre
Jean Champion
Bertrand, the Producer
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Alphonse
François Truffaut
Ferrand, the Director

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: François Truffaut
Writers: François Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman
Languages: English, French
Countries: France, Italy

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MONEY

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Shot for just $0.7M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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ERA

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53 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, French.

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WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: France, Italy.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by François Truffaut, shot by Pierre-William Glenn. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Georges Delerue. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Yann Dedet shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Jacqueline Bisset and Valentina Cortese and Dani carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

François Truffaut directs. Pierre-William Glenn behind the camera. Georges Delerue scores. Yann Dedet cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in France, Italy. Dialogue in English, French.

Trivia

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1Shot for just $0.7M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
253 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, French.
4International production across 2 countries: France, Italy.
5Directed by François Truffaut, shot by Pierre-William Glenn. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Georges Delerue. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Yann Dedet shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Jacqueline Bisset and Valentina Cortese and Dani carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "A movie for people who love movies.".
10IMDB entry: tt0070460 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 8 themes, including "lovesickness", "movie business", "nice", "alcoholic".
12Released under 11 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Pierre-William Glenn
Original score: Georges Delerue
Editing: Yann Dedet
Production design: Damien Lanfranchi
Costume design: Monique Dury
Makeup / hair: Malou Rossignol
Runtime: 116 min · 1h 56m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $700,000
Box office: $850,000
Return: 121% of budget
Original language: FR
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Day for Night (1973)
Rotten Tomatoes: 98% 🍅 Fresh
IMDB rating: 8/10 · 26,029 votes
MPAA: PG

Awards

Won 1 Oscar. 13 wins & 7 nominations total

Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

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CinemaSerf2023-05-27
★ 7/10
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.

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