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Directed by FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT...
Screenplay by FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT, JEAN-LOUIS RICHARD and SUZANNE SCHIFFMAN...
...momentarily disoriented, startled, a little frustrated. It is as if a magician performed a beautiful trick, then pulled back the curtains to show how he did it. This new movie of Truffaut's is just such a revelation, a sly and loving tribute to the elaborate and inspiring chaos of film making-and Truffaut's funniest, shrewdest, most relaxed work in some time...
...daylight to make them look like night) recounts the frustrations, compensations and intramural emotional crises of a crew on location in Nice to shoot a movie called Meet Pamela. "Shooting a film is like taking a stagecoach ride in the Old West," says the director (deftly played by Truffaut himself). "First you hope to have a nice trip. Then you just hope to reach your destination...
...director Truffaut shows in Day for Night is not Truffaut himself, but Truffaut as he once was, and would probably always like to be. He makes decisions cooly, creatively, and offers an almost paternal sympathy to each member of the production crew. It is an image to match with the greats, a cineaste's idol, and--for better or worse--the creation of a director paying homage to himself...