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An affectionate look at the making of a film, and the off-screen relationships of all the actors involved. Directed by French master filmmaker Francois Truffaut.

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ProducerMarcel Berbert

EAN5050629049503

eBay Product ID (ePID)21048562760

Product Key Features

ActorValentina Cortese, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Francois Truffaut, Jacqueline Bisset, Nike Arrighi

Film/TV TitleDay for Night

DirectorFrancois Truffaut

LanguageFrench

Subtitle LanguageEnglish

Run Time111 Mins

FormatBlu-ray

Release Year2016

FeaturesNew 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack \New visual essay by filmmaker :: kogonada \New interview with cinematographer Pierre-William Glenn \New interview with film scholar Dudley Andrew \Documentary on the film from 2003, featuring film scholar Annette Insdorf \Archival interviews with director Franτois Truffaut; editor Yann Dedet; and actors Jean-Pierre Aumont, Nathalie Baye, Jacqueline Bisset, Dani, and Bernard Menez \Television footage of Truffaut on the filmÆs set in 1972 \Trailer \New English subtitle translation \PLUS: An essay by critic David Cairns, With Subtitles

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate12A/12

Country/Region of ManufactureFrance

ComposerGeorges Delerue

Additional InformationDAY FOR NIGHT was director Franτois 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, DAY FOR NIGHT 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.

AwardsBest Foreign Film 1974 -

ScreenwriterJean-Louis Richard, Francois Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleDay For Night

Director of PhotographyPierre-Wiliam Glenn

Consumer AdviceContains moderate sex references