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Day for Night (2003)

Jacqueline Bisset , Valentina Cortese , Francois Truffaut  |  PG |  DVD
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Dani, Alexandra Stewart
  • Directors: Francois Truffaut
  • Format: Color, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English (Mono), French (Dolby Digital 1.0)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Dubbed: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: August 10, 2010
  • Run Time: 116 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B003VA3JTA
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,095 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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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

Product Description

The leading lady is recovering from a nervous breakdown, another performer is soused on the set, unions threaten to walk, shooting must finish before the insurance lapses and a cat can't hit its mark. Is this any way to make a film? FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT's sly, humorous Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language Film (1973) that speaks the language of everyone who loves movies. JACQUELINE BISSET, JEAN-PIERRE AUMONT, VALENTINA CORTESE, NATHALIE BAYE and Truffaut star.

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42 of 43 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars It's Finally Here With Subtitles! March 26, 2003
Format:DVD
For years i have been not watching this film -- one of my very favourites -- because it was only available on VHS in an abysmally-dubbed version.

Well, now it's on DVD with the original French track and subtitles in English, and it's just as great as i've been remembering it from the last chance i had to see it theatrically.

The video transfer looks excellent, the sound is good, and the film is the film.

And there are goodies galore on the DVD as well; i haven't finished all of them yet.

If you haven't seen this film, now is the time to do so.

((The dubbed track is included for people who simply can't deal with subtitles.))

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34 of 38 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Delicate but penetrating May 24, 2003
Format:VHS Tape
La Nuit Américaine is an interesting movie with celebrated French director Francois Truffaut playing a director making a movie. He proves to be a modest and convincing actor himself while patiently weaving a tale about how movies are made and how intense the emotional interactions among those making the movie can be.

Don't give up on this one too soon. It starts slow and seems almost amateurish because of the relatively low-tech way the film within the film is being shot. Truffaut gives us a glimpse of how the production crew works together (and sometimes at odds) while showing us some of the things that can go wrong while making a movie. He begins with the technical details of the production but before long begins to concentrate on the personalities of the movie-makers and their individual stories. Each story is carefully crafted in a somewhat leisurely way almost like the characterizations in a soap opera (without of course the phony drama and mass market sentimentality seen on TV). Truffaut's fine sense of emotional conflict and how conflict might be resolved makes the various stories touching without being maudlin.

Jacqueline Bisset who stars as English actress Julia Baker who plays the title role in the film within the film (May I Introduce Pamela?) doesn't make her appearance until about a fourth of the way in. She is a delight as an actress with a heart of gold recovering from a nervous breakdown married to an older man whom she does indeed love. Jean-Pierre Leaud, whom most viewers will recall as the running boy in Truffaut's The 400 Blows, plays a young and not entirely confident actor who gets jilted by the script girl who runs off with the stunt man during production. Bisset's warm and sisterly befriending of Leaud is, shall we say, entirely French (which gets her into trouble with her husband). This really is a skillful showcasing of Bisset since she gets to play something like an ingenue with her husband and the older woman with Leaud. Be careful you might fall in love with her.

Valentina Cortese in a fine supporting role does a most convincing job of playing the temperamental Italian actress just past her prime who quaffs champagne while working, who forgets her lines and can't find the right door, but when properly indulged gives a great performance.

My problem with this movie is I saw the dubbed version and of course that is disconcerting because one is constantly trying to reconcile the visualized actor with the dubbed one. To see Jacqueline Bisset who is beautifully fluent in both English and French speaking French while at the same time hearing someone else speaking English for her is just a bit too much to take. I understand that the DVD version is in French with subtitles. I would recommend that you get that and not the dubbed video.

Truffaut is the kind of director who allows the audience to penetrate not only his characters to see what makes them tick, but also the stars who play those characters. He does a particularly beautiful job with Bisset who is warm and wise and something close to heroic, and with Leaud whose childishness seems natural and whose pettiness forgivable. Don't believe those reviewers who think this is a slight film. It is carefully crafted and very well thought out and is a fine example of the work of the one of the great directors of the French cinema. See it for Truffaut whose delicate genius is evident throughout.

--Dennis Littrell, author of "Cut to the Chaise Lounge or I Can't Believe I Swallowed the Remote!"
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic film........one of Truffaut's best..... February 12, 2007
Format:DVD
For those of you who haven't seen any films by the late, great French director, Francois Truffaut, Day For Night (French title: La Nuit Americaine) is a great introduction. This actually won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, and it is evident why. Day For Night is really a valentine to Francois Truffaut's love affair with cinema. This is a great and intriguing story (a sort of film within a film approach). Ferrand (played by Truffaut) is the hardworking film director, trying to line all of his ducks in a row, to film and complete his movie, "Je Vous Presente Pamela." As is often the case, nothing is going quite as was planned. For starters, his beautiful lead, Julie (Jacqueline Bisset), is recovering from a breakdown. Her co-star (Jean Pierre Leaud) is completely unreliable, and Severine (Valentina Cortese), an aging actress, is hitting the bottle pretty hard during the filming of their picture. What's more, all sorts of other intrigues are taking place between members of the crew (romantic and otherwise).

I love this shot because it almost seems like a pseudo-documentary, as well as a loving tribute to the blood, sweat and tears that go into making a film. How great that Truffaut got in front of the camera for this piece. He really should have done it more often. This film is equally funny and touching and I highly reccomend it.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best movies about moviemaking
The French title of this movie is "La Nuit Americaine" which is the cinema technique for shooting during the day a night scene (In English "Day for Night"), but at... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Paolo Benassi
4.0 out of 5 stars A delight.
One of Truffaut's best and warmest films as the director himself plays a harried film director making a piece of fluff at the Victorine stuios in Nice. Read more
Published 2 months ago by filmgene
1.0 out of 5 stars day for night
Not worth a penny.

Boring boring boring. The worst movie ever! Hard to follow; no action, no sense.
I felt a sleep shortly
Published 9 months ago by miajkkj
5.0 out of 5 stars Love affair with the movies
"Day for Night" is one of the best movies about the movies ever made, standing right up there with "Sunset Boulevard" and "Singin' in the Rain". Read more
Published 22 months ago by Scadhog
4.0 out of 5 stars Truffaut's Meditation on Movie Making
"Day for Night," ("La Nuit Americaine," 1973), is a widely-distributed French film by one of the leaders of the French "nouvelle vague" (New Wave) school of filmmaking, Francois... Read more
Published on January 26, 2010 by Stephanie DePue
3.0 out of 5 stars Backstory
A low-key, amiable behind-the-scenes pastry from Francois Truffaut about a film's clumsy production.

Props go awry, actors flake out, love is won, lost, teased. Read more
Published on June 17, 2009 by Clare Quilty
4.0 out of 5 stars Highly enjoyable comedy-fiction about making movies
This film is a great treat to those who like film but know little about how they are made. You get what is supposed to be a behind-the-scenes look into how a master director... Read more
Published on May 28, 2009 by Robert J. Crawford
4.0 out of 5 stars Funny, witty and charming; this'll make you want to make a movie...
It may not be as sublimely rich and ultimately haunting as Federico Fellini's `8 ½' but truth be told `La Nuit Americaine' is an astonishing film that is as clever as it is honest... Read more
Published on January 7, 2009 by Andrew Ellington
5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie about how to make a movie
This is a wonderful love letter to the movies from Francois Truffaut who not only directs but also delivers a terrific performance as a movie director. Read more
Published on October 2, 2008 by Alan A. Elsner
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding!!!
"Day for Night" is the 4th or 5th movie by Francois Truffaut that I have seen. The other movies were good, some even very good, but I came away from them with the impression that... Read more
Published on September 13, 2008 by Randy Keehn
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