Day for Night

Day for Night

  • Director: François Truffaut
  • Writer: François Truffaut,Jean-Louis Richard,Suzanne Schif
  • Countries of origin: France, Italy
  • Language: French, English, Italian
  • Release date: September 7, 1973
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1
  • Also known as: Ameriška noč
  • La Nuit Americaine is a French drama film directed by François Truffaut and released on November 15, 1972, starring Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Guette Starring.
    The film, "La Nuit Americaine" tells the story of the film's director, actors and producers. 

    Details

    • Release date September 7, 1973
    • Filming locations Côte d'Azur, France
    • Production companies Les Films du Carrosse, PECF, Produzione Intercontinentale Cinematografica (PIC)

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $509

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $11,206

    Gross worldwide

    $509

    Movie reviews

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    • By Chesley 2022-03-20 09:03:07

      around the clock

      "Day and Night" tells about the various difficulties encountered in the filming process, the complex relationship between actors, and the producers' demands on the shooting schedule. Truffaut himself played the role of the director in the film, and explained that the characteristic of the director's profession is that he is constantly solicited opinions from others, but sometimes he does not have a definite answer. Despite the constant turmoil in the crew, the director still loves his...

    • By Russ 2022-03-14 14:12:31

      day and night magic

      I have a friend who refuses to know anything about the filming process, saying it would confuse her, unable to imagine how actors move between the inside and the outside of the film, the real and the fake.

      Her exclamation was particularly sympathetic to me. There's always a part of my brain that refuses to admit that my favorite movies are fiction. (Even if Wenders himself hits my head with a sledgehammer, don't make me accept that the angels of "Under the Berlin Sky" don't exist.)...

    • By Danielle 2022-03-13 08:01:01

      Life is more painful than the movie, and you belong to the movie

      "Life is more painful than a movie, and you belong to a movie" - Day for night after watching it, it is also translated as a play within a play. The former refers to a film shooting technique that uses filter light during the day. The night scene of the movie is shot by the mirror, and the latter is the direct positioning of the content of the movie. Day and night is a part of this film, and of course it also reflects the core problem: making a film is not easy, strictly speaking, it is a...

    • By Morgan 2022-03-13 08:01:01

      The director on the frying pan is dancing

      You don't know everything, but you have to act like you're sure about everything, sure about everything, and even if it's wrong, you should say yes, that's it, and then say it at some point , let's try another approach to get back on track. And this is exactly how to make a movie, how to be a director. Truffaut plays the director, of course, is much more amiable than the Coen brothers or the director who made the actor swallow maggots, but there is still no evasion. The director has an ignorant...

    • By Roxane 2022-03-13 08:01:01

      Few People Could Ever Love Films More Than Truffaut.

      Next time when you are ready to criticize a bad film, watch Day for Night, watch how hard it is to make a movie, even a bad one. Hidden under his calm facial expression is Truffaut's extreme love for films. His nightmare sequence is treated in such a beautiful way--a teenager Truffaut sneaking into the theatre to steal pictures of Citizen Kane. No matter how much reality tries to tear his dream apart, he still keeps the most genuine and sincere love for films, the love he has been having since...

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    • By Diego 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      After watching this film, I feel that it is really not easy to say that I love movies. Watching a movie and making a movie are two different things. This masterpiece is completely a demonstration film of the Bible booklet in the early stage of the movie. Let’s figure out the rules that should be understood, and then talk about the type of your favorite, look at others, the 1973 film is not outdated at all now, it is worth studying in depth, and I would also like to thank...

    • By Deontae 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      "Metafiction"; Compared with "Eight and a Half", which expounds the introversion of the creative bottleneck, the pressure caused by the external environment to the director is obviously more...

    • By Alana 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      Truffaut used his own way to express the collision between the efforts, pursuits and reality of the filmmakers. He poured his own thoughts and experiences into telling us that he loves movies more than life. The film is very skillful, it allows us to see both the process of making the film and the plot of the film that was made. It includes various crew conflicts and rules that are still "in use" to this day. Anyone who loves filming must see this...

    • By Louisa 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      Any mise en abyme will not be able to make this work. The male protagonist reminds me of the silly little boyfriend of the heroine in "Last Tango in Paris"; the scene in the crew (the scene in this film and the director's assistant are the same person) are all smart arse, the director's follower, who thinks he knows everything, There are constant conflicts between Erlengzi prop masters. She said, "I will leave a man for a movie, but not a movie for a man", which shows the ambition to aim at the...

    • By Immanuel 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      Very strange, I asked everyone from the infatuated male protagonist in the middle of this play: Women are amazing, right? Started to like it very much. If the title was changed, everyone would be in trouble. Movies are really much better than reality, so the director in the play said: We all live for movies. In the end, it's a really noisy group of people, and it's always not very good behind the...

    Behind the scenes gags

    Truffaut gave full play to his love of improvisation between the shoots of La Nuit Americaine. Actors don't have to memorize lines during filming, and his actors are said to have become accustomed to reading lines the night before filming; secondly, those who know Truffaut have become accustomed to quoting from conversations with him Words; in the end, the more the filming moved forward, the more time and financially tight it became,...
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    About the video

    Truffaut's La Nuit Americaine (La Nuit Américaine, 1973) took home the Oscar for best foreign language film after Buñuel's Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie . The original name of this film is a professional term, referring to the fact that Americans often use filters to shoot night scenes in broad daylight, and the sky is dark blue through the filter... This method of shooting night scenes during the day and not at night is called :...
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    Truffaut vs Godard

    The two, who are both reviewers of "Cinebook" and the main characters of "New Wave" films, once sympathized with each other and broke openly after the release of "La Nuit Americaine". Godard sarcastically called Truffaut "the merchant of the morning and the poet of the afternoon".
    The break between the two seemed a bit sudden, because when Godard had a car accident in 1971, Truffaut went to the hospital to visit him, and even Truffaut...
    more about Day for Night Truffaut vs Godard

    Movie quotes

    • Séverine: Isn't he adorable? When did I work with him...? Oh, Mamma Mia, 20 years ago in Hollywood! We were there at the same time. You know, he was a real ladies man. In Hollywood, they called him the continental lover. I loved him, too.

      Odile, la maquilleuse: Is he married?

      Séverine: I don't know if he is now. He was married and divorced twice. Maybe he lives with someone. No one knows. He's very secretive.

      Odile, la maquilleuse: He has a moustache in the movie. I like it.

      Séverine: Moustache or not, he is still playing lovers! And look at me... I'm only cast as the neglected wife! Desperate... tragic... a real pain...

    • Le producteur de films érotiques: [to Ferrand] I'd like you to meet two German girls. They're sisters: Greta and Diana. She was in a big German political film. Do you do any? She was in an erotic film. Why don't you do one? I have a good script about pollution.

    • Ferrand: Quiet! A full rehearsal. Let's go, Séverine.

      Séverine: "I don't understand you Alexander! You're - "

      Alexandre: "Peculiar"

      Séverine: Oh, yes.

      Ferrand: It's all right! Take it from the top, right away. Let's go, Séverine.

      Séverine: "I don't understand you Alexander! You've been peculiar, lately. Walking out on dinner last night! That was an insult to Julie." Damn! I said Julie instead of Pamela.

      Ferrand: Not to worry.

      Séverine: I've got an idea! I'll use numbers, the way I do for Fellini! Instead of "I don't understand you Alexander..." I'll say, 22, 83, 16, 72, 5, 3, 18, 9, 14, 7, 9. 17, 10, 10, 4, 18, 69...

      Ferrand: Impossible, Séverine. In France, we have to say the lines.