Day for Night (1973)
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Director:François Truffaut
Studio:Warner Home Video
Producer:Marcel Berbert
Writer:François Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman
Rated:PG
Date Added:2013-04-15
UPC:9786300269125
Price:$59.95
Genre:French films
Release:2003-02-05
Duration:115
Languages:English, French
Subtitles:English, French, Spanish
LAC code:300011050
DVD or VHS:DVD
Original:original
François Truffaut  ...  (Director)
François Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman  ...  (Writer)
 
Jacqueline Bisset  ...  
Jean-Pierre Léaud  ...  
François Truffaut  ...  
Valentina Cortese  ...  
Dani  ...  
Pierre-William Glenn  ...  Cinematographer
Martine Barraqué  ...  Editor
Yann Dedet  ...  Editor
Summary: François Truffaut's lavish and fun 1973 comedy-drama about a film production is a clever hall of mirrors, with Truffaut himself playing a director, and his most important actor in real life, Jean-Pierre Léaud ("The 400 Blows"), portraying Jacqueline Bisset's immature costar. "Day for Night" is full of tales undoubtedly told out of school and repeated here in camouflage, and one can't help but be impressed with the stylistic and technical means by which Truffaut captures the adventurousness of a full-budget shoot. The cast is very good all around, with actors in some cases playing fictional thespians and in other cases playing members of the crew. A sequence set to thrilling music by Georges Delerue celebrates the whole art of filmmaking as seen from an editor's perspective--it makes one want to drop everything and shoot a film of one's own. "--Tom Keogh"