Day for Night (1973)
(La nuit américaine)
Country: FR/IT
Technical: col 116m
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Synopsis:
The shooting of a sex melodrama at a Nice studio is beset with routine drawbacks and the emotional travails of cast and crew.
Review:
Characteristically light and inconsequential Truffaut comedy, without a single scene of any dramatic weight whatever, but shot through with a love of cinema and his own particular slant on human relationships, that is to say very much bound up with the 'present'. Looked at more profoundly, it sees film-making as an inextricable compromise between the vision of a script and the contingencies of a group endeavour. Alphonse's wistful view of women and love, and his wrecking behaviour when reality does not live up to the dream, can be seen as a counterpoint to this. The film incidentally offers a nostalgic view of studio film-making at a time when it was all but dying out, replete with sets, cranes and dollies, and (to our eyes) an alarming indifference to health and safety!
(La nuit américaine)
Country: FR/IT
Technical: col 116m
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Synopsis:
The shooting of a sex melodrama at a Nice studio is beset with routine drawbacks and the emotional travails of cast and crew.
Review:
Characteristically light and inconsequential Truffaut comedy, without a single scene of any dramatic weight whatever, but shot through with a love of cinema and his own particular slant on human relationships, that is to say very much bound up with the 'present'. Looked at more profoundly, it sees film-making as an inextricable compromise between the vision of a script and the contingencies of a group endeavour. Alphonse's wistful view of women and love, and his wrecking behaviour when reality does not live up to the dream, can be seen as a counterpoint to this. The film incidentally offers a nostalgic view of studio film-making at a time when it was all but dying out, replete with sets, cranes and dollies, and (to our eyes) an alarming indifference to health and safety!
(La nuit américaine)
Country: FR/IT
Technical: col 116m
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Synopsis:
The shooting of a sex melodrama at a Nice studio is beset with routine drawbacks and the emotional travails of cast and crew.
Review:
Characteristically light and inconsequential Truffaut comedy, without a single scene of any dramatic weight whatever, but shot through with a love of cinema and his own particular slant on human relationships, that is to say very much bound up with the 'present'. Looked at more profoundly, it sees film-making as an inextricable compromise between the vision of a script and the contingencies of a group endeavour. Alphonse's wistful view of women and love, and his wrecking behaviour when reality does not live up to the dream, can be seen as a counterpoint to this. The film incidentally offers a nostalgic view of studio film-making at a time when it was all but dying out, replete with sets, cranes and dollies, and (to our eyes) an alarming indifference to health and safety!