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Day for Night
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1973 French film directed by François Truffaut
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*Day for Night* (original title *La Nuit américaine*) is a 1973 French and Italian drama and tragicomedy directed by François Truffaut. The film stars Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Aumont, and Niké Arrighi. Truffaut also served as producer and co-wrote the screenplay with Suzanne Schiffman and Jean-Louis Richard. Pierre-William Glenn was the director of photography, and Georges Delerue composed the score. Distributed by Columbia Pictures, the narrative is set in Nice and was produced by Les Films du Carrosse, Productions et Éditions Cinématographiques Françaises, and Produzione Intercontinentale Cinematografica (PIC).
The film has a runtime of 115 or 116 minutes and was released on May 24, 1973. It received a PG rating and was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film. It won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Reviews have been positive, with a 98% score on Rotten Tomatoes and an 8.0/10 rating on IMDb.
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Film · TMDB
7.8A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
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
Themes
- lovesickness
- movie business
- nice
- alcoholic
- extramarital affair
- making of
- insurance agent
- film director
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Ratings
IMDb
8/10
26,029 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
98%
- Year
- 1973
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 13 wins & 7 nominations total
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Key facts
- French
- La nuit américaine
- Literally
- American Night
- Directed by
- François Truffaut
- Written by
- François Truffaut Jean-Louis Richard Suzanne Schiffman
- Produced by
- Marcel Berbert
- Starring
- Jacqueline Bisset Valentina Cortese Dani Alexandra Stewart Jean-Pierre Aumont Jean Champion Jean-Pierre Léaud François Truffaut
- Cinematography
- Pierre-William Glenn
- Edited by
- Yann Dedet Martine Barraquè
- Music by
- Georges Delerue
- Production companies
- Les Films du Carrosse Productions et Éditions Cinématographiques Françaises</span>"}]]}'>PECF Produzione Internazionale Cinematografica</span>"}]]}'>PIC
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. (through Warner- Columbia Film )
- Release dates
- 14 May 1973 ( 1973-05-14 ) ( Cannes ) 24 May 1973 ( 1973-05-24 ) (France) 7 September 1973 ( 1973-09-07 ) (Italy)
- Running time
- 116 minutes
- Countries
- France Italy
- Language
- French
- Budget
- $700,000
- Box office
- 839,583 admissions (France)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- tragicomedy
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Original language
- French
- Director
- François Truffaut
- Screenwriter
- Jean-Louis Richard
- Composer
- Georges Delerue
- Producer
- François Truffaut
- Cinematographer
- Pierre-William Glenn
- Narrative location
- Nice
- Duration
- 115
- FilmAffinity ID
- 113826
Show 5 more facts
- publication date
- 1973-10-03
- title
- La Nuit américaine
- distributed by
- Columbia Pictures
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 98%
Sources (13)
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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