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ComedyDrama

Day for Night

- 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.

Release Date : 1973-05-24

Language :EnglishFrench

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Les Films du CarrosseProductions et Éditions Cinématographiques FrançaisesProduzione Intercontinentale Cinematografica (PIC)

Production Country : FranceItaly

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Jacqueline Bisset

Character Name : Julie Baker

Original Name : Jacqueline Bisset

Gender : Female

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Character Name : Alphonse

Original Name : Jean-Pierre Léaud

Gender : Male

François Truffaut

Character Name : Directeur Ferrand

Original Name : François Truffaut

Gender : Male

Jean-Pierre Aumont

Character Name : Alexandre

Original Name : Jean-Pierre Aumont

Gender : Male

Valentina Cortese

Character Name : Severine

Original Name : Valentina Cortese

Gender : Female

Dani

Character Name : Liliane

Original Name : Dani

Gender : Female

Alexandra Stewart

Character Name : Stacey

Original Name : Alexandra Stewart

Gender : Female

Jean Champion

Character Name : Bertrand

Original Name : Jean Champion

Gender : Male

Niké Arrighi

Character Name : Odile

Original Name : Niké Arrighi

Gender : Female

Nathalie Baye

Character Name : Joelle

Original Name : Nathalie Baye

Gender : Female

David Markham

Character Name : Doctor Nelson

Original Name : David Markham

Gender : Male

Bernard Ménez

Character Name : Bernard

Original Name : Bernard Ménez

Gender : Male

Jean-François Stévenin

Character Name : Jean-François

Original Name : Jean-François Stévenin

Gender : Male

Walter Bal

Character Name : Walter

Original Name : Walter Bal

Gender : Male

Gaston Joly

Character Name : Lajoie

Original Name : Gaston Joly

Gender : Male

Zénaïde Rossi

Character Name : Madame Lajoie

Original Name : Zénaïde Rossi

Gender : Male

Pierre Zucca

Character Name : Photograph

Original Name : Pierre Zucca

Gender : Male

Marc Boyle

Character Name : Stuntman

Original Name : Marc Boyle

Gender : Male

Marcel Berbert

Character Name : Französischer Versicherungsmann

Original Name : Marcel Berbert

Gender : Male

Xavier Saint-Macary

Character Name : Alexandres Liebhaber

Original Name : Xavier Saint-Macary

Gender : Male

Maurice Seveno

Character Name :

Original Name : Maurice Seveno

Gender : Male

Graham Greene

Character Name : Insurance company representative

Original Name : Graham Greene

Gender : Male

Reviews

C

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2023-05-27

It's quite hard to succinctly review this Truffaut comedy - there is just so much going on. Essentially, Jacqueline Bisset ("Julie") is brought to Nice to star in a movie about a British woman who is married to a Frenchman. She comes to meet his family and promptly falls in love with her husband's father and so leaves him to shack up with his dad. It turns out, as the production progresses that the producer "Bertrand" (Jean Champion) and the director "Ferrand" (Truffaut himself) have to deal with an whole gamut of issues as the cast - all assembled in a small hotel - come with more baggage than the Queen Mary. "Julie" is recovering from a failed marriage and a nervous breakdown; "Séverine" (Valentina Cortese) is having an affair - but with a bottle, and Jean-Pierre Léaud steals the film as the petulant and high-maintenance "Alphonse". It reminded me a little of Fellini's "8½" from ten years earlier, another behind the scenes as a movie is made story - but it could hardly be more different. Here, the cast and the crew could not have been more dysfunctional - a trait of the creative, I believe - but in the end somehow or other there is a chance the film might actually get made! It is good fun, and the odd contribution from Jean-Pierre Aumont help keep this 2 hour extravaganza moving along entertainingly. Georges Delerue's jaunty score compliments the lovely open-ness of this production, and I really enjoyed this film.