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Day for Night ( La Nuit américaine ) ( The American Night ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ] Feature
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France released, PAL/Region 2 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),Czech ( Subtitles ),Dutch ( Subtitles ),English ( Subtitles ),German ( Subtitles ),Greek ( Subtitles ),Hungarian ( Subtitles ),Italian ( Subtitles ),Portuguese ( Subtitles ),Spanish ( Subtitles ),Swedish ( Subtitles ),Turkish ( Subtitles ),SPECIAL FEATURES: Cast/Crew Interview(s), Commentary, Interactive Menu, Scene Access,SYNOPSIS: Known to English-speaking audiences as Day for Night, La nuit américaine was director François 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, La nuit américaine 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. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, Golden Globes, Oscar Academy Awards,
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“Day for Night,” (“La Nuit Americaine,” 1973), is a widely-distributed French film by one of the leaders of the French “nouvelle vague” (New Wave) school of filmmaking, Francois Truffaut(Francois Truffaut’s Adventures of Antoine Doinel (The 400 Blows / Antoine Collette / Stolen Kisses / Bed Board / Love on the Run) – Criterion Collection). It is a comedy/drama, a movie for people who love movies, made by a director – Truffaut–who certainly loved movie-making, and who plays the director, Ferrand, struggling to complete his movie within the movie while in the midst of a storm of financial troubles, and personal and professional problems among cast and crew.br /br /The cast is certainly distinguished. The lovely Jacqueline Bisset (The Deep) stars as Julie Baker, the troubled American film star whom the company needs to make a financial success of the picture they are making. The veteran Italian actress Valentina Cortese (The Girl Who Knew Too Much) plays Severine, veteran actress; the veteran French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont (Heartbeat) plays Alexandre, veteran actor. They’ve previously worked together in Hollywood, we are told, and, apparently, are also better-acquainted than that, although Alexandre’s sexuality will come into question during the making of the movie. Jean-Pierre Leaud,(Bed Board: Domicile Conjugal) whom Truffaut frequently used to play a young man not unlike himself, plays Alphonse, an erratic, irritating, talented, selfish and spoiled young actor. Nathalie Baye(Catch Me If You Can (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)), now a very popular leading French actress, in her first job fresh out of the Academie Francaise, France’s most distinguished acting school, plays the script girl Joelle. The French veteran Jean Champion plays Bertrand. Graham Greene, the great English novelist, (Our Man in Havana (Penguin Classics)), who sometimes lived on the Riviera, and whom Truffaut was anxious to meet, plays an unaccredited cameo as an insurance man: Truffaut wasn’t informed of his identity until later.br /br / The film’s score, a tuneful beauty, is by Georges Delerue. The script was written by Truffaut, with his frequent collaborator Suzanne Schiffman, and Jean-Louis Richard; it was, of course, directed by Truffaut. It’s one of his last films, and was meant to be, with the theater-oriented The Last Metro: The Criterion Collection [Blu-ray], one of a group of films saluting the French lively arts. br /br /The picture is set largely in the south of France, at the famous -within France, at least – Victorine Studios, an old facility whose still-standing streetscapes, used in earlier movies but never torn down due to the expense involved, quite likely enabled Truffaut’s movie to be made, from the financial point of view. It deals accurately, lovingly, with the difficulties involved in making a picture, from finding a cat that can act, to the death of a principal actor during filming. It shows Ferrand, the director, as a deaf man who lives what he does, and is willing to deal with any difficulties involved. At one point, he explains to his troubled people that real life is not like the movies, things just don’t happen as neatly. However, Ferrand is also, as is Truffaut’s director in “The Last Metro,” willing to use any scrap of the turmoil of his cast and crew, and/or to create more turmoil, if it will strengthen his product.br /br /In sum, the movie’s rather mild, as movies go, but it has some really hilarious scenes — check out the poorly performing cat. And there’s rarely been a more clear-eyed, meticulous, or affectionate portrayal of movies as they are made. So it’s still worth seeing.br /
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