Day for Night (1973)

PG05/24/1973Comedy, Drama1h 56m
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A movie for people who love movies.

Overview

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

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Jacqueline Bisset

    Julie Baker

  2. Cast 1

    Valentina Cortese

    Séverine

  3. Cast 1

    Dani

    Liliane, the Trainee Script Girl

  4. Cast 1

    Alexandra Stewart

    Stacey

  5. Cast 1

    Jean-Pierre Aumont

    Alexandre

  6. Cast 1

    Jean Champion

    Bertrand, the Producer

  7. Cast 1

    Jean-Pierre Léaud

    Alphonse

  8. Cast 1

    François Truffaut

    Ferrand, the Director

  9. Cast 1

    Niké Arrighi

    Odile, the Makeup Artist

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 tha...

Status Released

Original LanguageFrench 

Budget$700,000.00

Revenue $850,000.00

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