Day for Night ( La Nuit américaine ) ( The American Night )

Day for Night (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La Nuit américaine
Alternate Title: The American Night
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Czech ( Subtitles )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )
Greek ( Subtitles )
Hungarian ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )
Turkish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
112 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1973 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
François Truffaut

Written By:
Jean-Louis Richard
Suzanne Schiffman

Actors:
Jacqueline Bisset ..... Julie
Valentina Cortese ..... Severine
Dani ..... Liliane
Alexandra Stewart ..... Stacey
Jean-Pierre Aumont ..... Alexandre
Jean Champion ..... Bertrand
Jean-Pierre Léaud ..... Alphonse
François Truffaut ..... director Ferrand
Nike Arrighi ..... Odile
Nathalie Baye ..... Joelle
Maurice Seveno ..... TV Reporter
David Markham ..... Doctor Nelson
Bernard Menez ..... Bernard the Prop Man
Gaston Joly ..... Lajoie
Zénaïde Rossi ..... Madame Lajoie

Synopsis:

Known to English-speaking audiences as Day for Night, La nuit americaine was director Francois Truffaut's loving and humorous tribute to the communal insanity of making a movie. The film details the making of a family drama called 'Meet Pamela' about the tragedy that follows when a young French man introduces his parents to his new British wife. Truffaut gently satirizes his own films with 'Meet Pamela's overwrought storyline, but the real focus is on the chaos behind the scenes. One of the central actresses is continually drunk due to family problems, while the other is prone to emotional instability, and the male lead (Truffaut regular Jean-Pierre Leaud) starts to act erratically when his intermittent romance with the fickle script girl begins to fail. In addition to all this personal drama, the film is besieged by technical problems, from difficult tracking shots to stubborn animal actors. The inspiration for future satires of movie-making from Living in Oblivion to Irma Vep, La nuit americaine was considered slight by some critics in comparison to earlier Truffaut masterworks, but it went on to win the 1973 Oscar for Best Foreign Film.

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

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 15 March, 2009.

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