Synopsis
A movie for people who love movies
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Day for Night
1973 ‘La Nuit américaine’ Directed by François Truffaut
Cast
Jacqueline Bisset Jean-Pierre Léaud François Truffaut Jean-Pierre Aumont Valentina Cortese Dani Alexandra Stewart Jean Champion Niké Arrighi Nathalie Baye David Markham Bernard Ménez Jean-François Stévenin Walter Bal Gaston Joly Zénaïde Rossi Pierre Zucca Marc Boyle Marcel Berbert Xavier Saint-Macary Maurice Seveno Graham Greene
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Les Films du Carrosse Productions et Éditions Cinématographiques Françaises Produzione Intercontinentale Cinematografica (PIC) Warner Bros. Entertainment France
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Alternative Titles
戏中戏, 美国之夜, 幽灵王国, 日以继夜, 白天不懂夜的黑, 사랑의 묵시록, Natteffekt, Effetto Notte, Американска нощ, La nit americana, Americká noc, Die amerikanische Nacht, Αμερικάνικη Νύχτα, La noche americana, Amerikkalainen yö, Amerikai éjszaka, Effetto notte, アメリカの夜, 아메리카의 밤, Noc amerykańska, A Noite Americana, Американская ночь, Dag som natt, Amerikan Gecesi, Американська ніч, 日以作夜
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Moving relationship stories Relationship comedy Humanity and the world around us romance, emotion, relationships, feelings or captivating artists, biography, musician, songs or emotional marriage, emotion, romance, feelings or relationships romance, charming, comedy, witty or delightful historical, royalty, sumptuous, lavish or drama Show All…
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“I’d dump a guy for a film but never a film for a guy!”
charming, genuine, and brave enough to tell the three essential truths about filmmaking:
- movies are more important than life
- everyone in the cast and crew is boning each other
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I love movies about movies and I love being on a set so much. I miss the energy, and the busyness, and the hustling unpreparedness! I loved how unfocused this movie was– no singular plot, no central character to follow, just a series of dramas surrounding a single production. It feels like a Christopher Guest movie with the dial turned way down. Love it!
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100/100
Sorry, Jean-Luc Godard. You've been topped for best movie about movies.
Francois Truffaut's Day for Night is a fantastically dazzling masterpiece of cinema. A glorious celebration and condemnation of the joys and faults of filmmaking. It's also a genius satire, taking all of the troubles and woes of filmmaking and making a somewhat sarcastic remark about them. Truffaut has made a big mark on satirical cinema with this piece, and honestly it's probably far too complex for me to properly dissect at this moment.
Being a film within a film, Day for Night doesn't try to take itself too seriously. It reminds the audience that, while cinema is a glorious form of art in itself, it's still simply fictionalized…
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I was kinda losing my interest and passion for cinema over the past couple weeks, but watching Day for Night for the first time yesterday really restored my love, and possibly invigorated it more than ever.
Watching it for the third time this weekend reaffirmed that this is what I want to do with my life (even though films like Meet Pamela aren't made anymore). This is what it's all leading up to, this is my passion, this is my love, this is cinema.
Thus, Day for Night is the film with the biggest impact on my life, which is actually kinda funny, since I only saw it yesterday.
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"No one's private life runs smoothly. That only happens in the movies.”
making a movie looks like the most stressful thing in the world but somehow the most amazing thing in the world at the same and i think that’s pretty neat
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Cmon guys lets stop kidding ourselves, Timothee Chalamet is just a wannabe Jean-Pierre Leaud 😒🙄
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So after this film was released, Jean-Luc Goddard (everyone's favorite French new wave asshat) wrote a letter to Truffaut accusing him of selling out and saying that since the film had appeal to the masses it had no inherit value. And if that doesn't sound the pretentious guy in your film class who hasn't watched an English language feature in 4 years but has no actual talent then I don't know what is.
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“i’d drop a guy for a film. i’d never drop a film for a guy!”
no 👏 truer 👏 words 👏 have 👏 ever 👏 been 👏 spoken.
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françois truffaut playing the director of the movie within the movie that he directed!!!! jean-pierre léaud serving looks and being a comedic king!!!! truffaut receiving the package of books about film he ordered and tearing it open with glee!!! his dream about stealing citizen kane promo stills from the cinema as a kid!!! the drama and scandal of working on a film set!!!
movie magic! so much to love!
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if you’re looking for a cinematic representation of me post-vaccine, look no further than the scene in this film in which jean-pierre léaud, after locking himself in his hotel room all day to stew in the melancholy of amour non réciproque, emerges in a white nightgown, looking like a pale victorian child, slowly walks up to the rest of the film crew, one hand extended in supplication, and asks if somebody will please lend him some money so he can go to the whorehouse.
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a while back, I made a personal pact not to give films a perfect rating on the first viewing, and today, after watching this, I am happy to announce my official departure from that decision
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