Day for Night
Day for Night is a 1973 French film directed by François Truffaut, starring Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Léaud, and Truffaut himself. The original French title is La Nuit américaine ("American Night"), the French name for the filmmaking process whereby sequences filmed outdoors in daylight are shot with a filter over the camera lens (a technique described in the dialogue of Truffaut's film) or also using film stock balanced for tungsten (indoor) light and underexposed (or adjusted during post-production) to appear as if they are taking place at night. In English, the technique is called day for night.
Plot
Day for Night chronicles the production of Je Vous Présente Paméla (Meet Pamela, or literally I want you to meet Pamela), a clichéd melodrama starring aging screen icon Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Aumont), former diva Séverine (Valentina Cortese), young heartthrob Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and a British actress, Julie Baker (Jacqueline Bisset), who is recovering from both a nervous breakdown and the controversy over her marriage to her much older doctor.
Awards
Cast
- Alexandra Stewart
- Bernard Menez
- Claude Miller
- Dani
- David Markham
- François Truffaut
- Georges Delerue
- Graham Greene
- Jacqueline Bisset
- Jean Champion
- Jean-François Stévenin
- Jean-Pierre Aumont
- Jean-Pierre Léaud
- Martine Barraqué
- Maurice Séveno
- Nathalie Baye
- Nike Arrighi
- Pierre Zucca
- Valentina Cortese
- Xavier Saint-Macary
More details
| author | François Truffaut Jean-Louis Richard Suzanne Schiffman |
|---|---|
| award | Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film |
| contentLocation | Nice |
| director | François Truffaut |
| editor | Martine Barraquè-Curie, Yann Dedet |
| keywords | car accident nervous breakdown true love |
| musicBy | Georges Delerue |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay |
| producer | Marcel Berbert |
| productionCompany | Les Films du Carrosse PECF Produzione Internazionale Cinematografica |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |
| theme | filmmaking |