A lovely, down-to-earth film by François Truffaut, who is beginning to become one of my favorite filmmakers. In excellent meta-film composure, the quirks and characteristics of each individual is impressively teased out within its series of interactions and conflicts. Much of the movie-making scenes were often rather humorous, and played off a fun homage to the film industry, while also serving a light critique. The acting was powerful and although I wasn't as fond of the characters as I'd like to be, the script the actors worked with was marvelously composed. This has surely become one of my favorite films about filmmaking.

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That kitten was a horrible actor.

It's just well-made in every way, and the story, though fairly episodic, is always interesting, but everything's much too neat and clear-cut to evoke the atmosphere of a real film set. Maybe that just means I'm in on the joke? I did like the way Truffaut isn't afraid to use extremely filmic devices, like interior monologue narration and black-and-white dream sequences while he's demystifying practical movie trickery. A simple, unambitious film that works. I can't really read any more into it than that.

Made me sit, enchanted, with a big goofy grin on my face for two hours. Truffaut shows us all the particulars, generalities and absurdities about film production interspersed with an array of fun on and off-set entanglements between cast and crew. It's a must-watch for anyone with a fleeting interest in filmmaking or any semblance of love for cinema. Made me want to fire up my old 'Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair' PC game.

If you've had the displeasure of not having seen or even know Truffaut's Day for Night and are an avid admirer of the film-making process, than you're missing what is perhaps the definitive work on the subject (8 1/2 is often cited but remains a difficult barrier to entry for me). I am anything but well versed with Truffaut's work, but the two that I have seen I hold in very high regard. Seek this one out.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching it however in the end it felt a bit shallow to me, on the behind the scenes aspect it all ends up being actors are irrational divas, and on the story side, well it's hard to tell, the director is presented as having this conflict because he has a dream of achieving something in the level of Citizen Kane, but then confronted by the reality of budgets and all other sorts of limitation, but the conflict goes nowhere, which is likely the point, but still makes it feel irrelevant on the whole. As for the mini dramas with the actors, they are fairly silly and not very interesting.

Anyone who loves movies and what goes into making them should see this film. Yes, there have been many movies about making movies, but Day for Night is one of the better ones. And this is coming from someone who is not as enamored of Truffault as the professional critics are. This is my favorite from among the six films of his that I have seen.

A tour de force of cinematic self-awareness that balances light-heartedness and a certain gravity (because of the technical cleverness) brilliantly. The ostensible purpose of the movie is to show the scaffolding propping up on-screen glamour—this is a movie about the making of a movie—but the heroics of the film workers (particularly the actress Jacqueline Bisset plays) are so convincingly wrought that we forget to disbelieve in their insistent dazzling elegance.

Note for geeks: Graham Greene cameos as the English insurance agent toward the end (he's a terrible actor).

Es una película diferente, excelente. Películas como esta te hacen aprender más de cine, incluso a adorarlo más.

An enjoyable little movie about the importance of art to the artist and the struggles of trying to make a film

One of the best films in movie history. Cut out the same cloth of films about filmmaking, Truffaut avoids Fellini's director centric approach and intead focuses on the whole production of the film within a film "Meet Pamela". The storylines go from the actors to the crew and the director himself (played by Truffaut) and serve as a background to disccuss the importance of movies to the ones who make them.

For a movie about making a movie, this is pretty good, although I prefer Living In Oblivion.

A lovely, down-to-earth film by François Truffaut, who is beginning to become one of my favorite filmmakers. In excellent meta-film composure, the quirks and characteristics of each individual is impressively teased out within its series of interactions and conflicts. Much of the movie-making scenes were often rather humorous, and played off a fun homage to the film industry, while also serving a light critique. The acting was powerful and although I wasn't as fond of the characters as I'd like to be, the script the actors worked with was marvelously composed. This has surely become one of my favorite films about filmmaking.

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.