Day for Night

1973 French film directed by François Truffaut

Film · TMDB

7.8

A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

Released: 1973-05-24116 minDir: François TruffautComedy, Drama

Cast

Jacqueline Bisset as Julie Baker
Valentina Cortese as Séverine
Dani as Liliane, the Trainee Script Girl
Alexandra Stewart as Stacey
Jean-Pierre Aumont as Alexandre
Jean Champion as Bertrand, the Producer

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Ratings

IMDb

8/10

26,029 votes

Rotten Tomatoes

Article

Day for Night (French: La Nuit américaine, lit. 'American Night') is a 1973 romantic comedy-drama film co-written and directed by François Truffaut. The metafictional and self-reflexive film chronicles the troubled production of a melodrama, and the various personal and professional challenges of the cast and crew. It stars Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Dani, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Léaud and Truffaut himself.

The film premiered out of competition at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film the following year. At the 1975 Oscars, the film was nominated for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress for Valentina Cortese. The film also won three BAFTA Awards, for Best Film, Best Direction, and Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Cortese.