1001 Movies Club - Day For Night (1973)

#567. Day For Night (1973)

Why It's In The Book: "The mixture of everyday detail with an unexpected, carefully restrained surge of poetic lyricism is quintessential Truffaut. Day For Night is Truffaut's valentine to the process of moviemaking. Controversially for the post-1968 period, he chose classical, studio-bound, generic cinema as his premise, not the nouvelle vague... The emphasis of the film is on filmmaking as craft rather than art... Truffaut paints an affectionate portrait of good-natured "family" relations among cast and crew in place of the vicious power plays usually presented, making Day For Night the polar opposite to Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt (1963) or Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Beware of a Holy Whore (1970)" -1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

Member Ratings

Adolytsi - 9/10
"I loved this film. As a film lover and pursuer of a career in the industry, it appealed to me in all the right ways."
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Nicolas Krizan - 9/10
"this thoroughly enjoyable and good-natured meta-illusion magically captures the chaotic, impossible, and unpredictable game of film-making."
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Rain62537 - 9/10
"Truffaut does a great job of balancing a good story line with the intricacies of making a movie."
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Siochembio - 9/10
"This is Truffaut explaining why he loves movies."
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Klaus Ming - 8/10
"a clever and entertaining film which is not particularly profound, but rather, just a good deal of fun."
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Michaël Parent - 8/10
"In this love letter to the seventh Art by one of its greatest lovers of all time, François Truffaut, the Cinema, the making of, the world in front and behind the camera is exposed like a porn star in a XXX feature."
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Movie Guy Steve - 8/10
"Truffaut was a special filmmaker, and La Nuit Americaine is a special film. "
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Overall Rating: 8.5/10