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Day for Night

DVD • May 24, 1973 • 1h 56m • PG • Budget $700,000 • Box Office $850,000

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A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

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Other Titles:	アメリカの夜
Sub Genres:	lovesickness, insurance salesman, alcoholic, nice, film director, making of, extramarital affair, movie business
Release Date:	Theatre 05/24/1973, Theatre US 10/01/1973, DVD 01/01/1974
Language:	French (FR)
Box Office:	$850,000 (Foreign)
Age Rating:	PG
Director:	François Truffaut
Type:	Movie
Links:	Movies Countdown, TVDB, IMDB, Letterboxd, TMDB, WIKIEN

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May 12, 2021 - by darkfire19

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truffaut has something to his films that many of his peers during the french new wave don't. a sense of subtle but funny humor. this is something that pervades his films but really comes through here. day for night, at its core, is about the process of making a film. about what happens between takes, what goes on during takes, all the problems that one could run across while making a film. truffaut finds the humor and all of it and brings it out with a deft touch. day for night differentiates itself from most other films from its era with this humor. however, for me, his best work comes when... read more

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April 14, 2023 - by Alberto Farina

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In the La Victorine studios near Nice, a film crew shooting a drama goes through a wide sample of the accidents that affect any production. Director Truffaut also plays the on-screen director in the ultimate love letter to filmmaking: never before or since has the experience of working on a movie set been captured so precisely or with more passion. A moving, exhilarating watch for any cinephile, "Day for Night" is the quintessential distillate of Truffaut's favorite themes. read more

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September 03, 2023 - by Gaurav Singh

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Day for Night: Are Movies Magic? By David Cairns ESSAYS — AUG 17, 2015 https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3659-day-for-night-are-movies-magic By 1973, François Truffaut was no longer the iconoclastic critic turned director of 1959s The 400 Blows, the man whod caused a sensation at Cannes and overturned the old order. For better or worse, as he began his thirteenth feature as director, he was the new mainstream, a paid-up member of the moviemaking establishment. His films had movie stars and were often genre yarns, or else quasi sequels to his first hit. After the unquestioned... read more

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