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Day for Night
Directed by
François Truffaut
PG
1973
1h 56m
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8.0
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A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
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Cast of Day for Night
Jacqueline Bisset
Julie Baker
Valentina Cortese
Séverine
Dani
Liliane, the Trainee Script Girl
Alexandra Stewart
Stacey
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Alexandre
Jean Champion
Bertrand, the Producer
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Alphonse
François Truffaut
Ferrand, the Director / Director
Niké Arrighi
Odile, the Makeup Artist
Nathalie Baye
Joelle, the Script Girl
Maurice Seveno
TV Reporter
David Markham
Doctor Michael Nelson
Bernard Ménez
Bernard, the Property Master
Gaston Joly
Lajoie, the Location Manager
Zénaïde Rossi
Madame Lajoie
Xavier Saint-Macary
Christian
Marc Boyle
English Stuntman
Walter Bal
Walter, the Camera Operator
Jean-François Stévenin
Jean-François, the Assistant Director
Pierre Zucca
Pierrot, the Still Photographer
Martine Barraqué
Martine, the Editor (uncredited)
Marcel Berbert
French Insurer (uncredited) / Producer
Yann Dedet
Yann, the Editor (uncredited)
Georges Delerue
Georges, the Composer (narration) (uncredited)
Graham Greene
English Insurer (uncredited)
Ernest Menzer
Producer of Erotic Films (uncredited)
Claude Miller
Hotel Client (uncredited)
Jean Panisse
Bit Part (uncredited)
Marie Poitevin
Woman (uncredited)
Christophe Vesque
Child with the Cane in the Dream Sequence (uncredited)
Suzanne Schiffman
Writer
Jean-Louis Richard
Writer
Day for Night Ratings & Reviews
Mister Arn
May 14, 2025
It gives you feeling for how relationships are built while creating a movie. The characters feel real and are fully developed in the time allowed.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
Day for Night is tender but too fan-magazinish in approach, too tenderly shallow for its own good.
Boston Phoenix
Janet Maslin
Truffaut's Day For Night is a wonderfully funny evocation of the psychic netherworld in which film crews operate.
Esquire Magazine
John Simon
The film is a combination guided tour and gossip column, documentary and exposé, guaranteed to please both young people interested in making movies and older folk curious about the mysteries of the film studio.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Judith Crist
[Day for Night is] universal in its sheer humanism, its exuberance, its tragic-comic view of people and events, and completely irresistible in its sheer love of the life it leads.
AwardsCircuit.com
Christopher James
Somehow, in taking us behind the curtain of how movie magic is made, Truffaut gives us even more magic. Sometimes the process is just as interesting as the product.
The Retro Set
Nathanael Hood
A sometimes exasperated, sometimes melancholic meditation on the artistic process, Day for Night is one of the greatest love letters to filmmaking ever made.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
A glorious ode to the fleeting, addictive and irreplaceable joys of cinematic collaboration...
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
François Truffaut's love letter to filmmaking
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Though not one of Truffaut's strongest works, this loving tribute to the chaotic process of filmmaking is charming, which may explain its win of the best foreign language film Oscar.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Lovely.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
It might not be a great film or one of Truffaut's arty ones, but it's entertaining, observant and witty.
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
Truffaut clearly communicates his consummate love for film in ways certain to bring knowing smiles to all movie lovers
New York Times
Vincent Canby
Truffaut is looking at the world from inside a glorious obsession: everyone outside looks a little gray and dim.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Day for Night exudes all the enchantment, zaniness and transitory pleasures of the movie-making business.
Movie Metropolis
John J. Puccio
Truffaut's love affair with motion pictures is evident in every scene.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A poem in praise of making movies. Not good movies, not bad movies -- movies.
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