La nuit américaine (1973)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.0/10   

Director:

François Truffaut

Escritores:

Jean-Louis Richard (writer)
Suzanne Schiffman (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

7 septiembre 1973 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Comedia

Frase comercial:

A movie for people who loves movies.

Plot:

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

Plot Keywords:

Director | Actor | Pregnancy | Press Conference | Filmmaker

Premios:

Won Oscar. Another 10 wins & 5 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A classic love poem to filmmaking, witty, elegant, humane and entrancing

Reparto

Jacqueline Bisset	...	Julie
Valentina Cortese	...	Severine
Dani	...	Liliane
Alexandra Stewart	...	Stacey
Jean-Pierre Aumont	...	Alexandre
Jean Champion	...	Bertrand
Jean-Pierre Léaud	...	Alphonse (as Jean-Pierre Leaud)
François Truffaut	...	director Ferrand
Nike Arrighi	...	Odile
Nathalie Baye	...	Joelle
Maurice Seveno	...	TV Reporter
David Markham	...	Doctor Nelson
Bernard Menez	...	Bernard the Prop Man
Gaston Joly	...	Lajoie
Zénaïde Rossi	...	Madame Lajoie

También conocida como:

Day for Night (USA)
Effetto notte (Italy)
The American Night (International: English title) (literal title)
La noche americana (Argentina) (Spain) [es]

Duración:

115 min

País:

France | Italy

Idioma:

Francés | Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco | Color (Eastmancolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.66 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Chile:14 | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | UK:PG | USA:PG | West Germany:12

Locaciones de Filmación:

Alpes-Maritimes, France

Compañía:

Les Films du Carrosse

Trivialidades:

When director Ferrand listens to a piece of music prepared for the film-within-a-film by George Delerue, he is listening to a piece from Les deux anglaises et le continent (1971)

Errores:

Errores que Revelan: When the director and the producer are browsing promotional photographs of the English actress, the actual name of "Jacqueline Bisset" can be briefly seen at the bottom of one of the photographs.

Citas:

[repeated line]
Alphonse: Are women magic?

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

Grande Chorale

A classic love poem to filmmaking, witty, elegant, humane and entrancing

Many movies have been made about moviemaking but none surpass Day for Night (La Nuit Américaine) for its humanity, its warmth and its genuine feel for Director François Truffaut's approach to his art and craft. The film follows Truffaut, in effect playing himself, as he makes a somewhat banal little romance called "Meet Pamela" (Je Vous Présente Pamela) with Jacqueline Bisset, Jean Pierre Aumont, Valentina Cortese (who was nominated for and should have won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress) and Jean-Pierre Léaud. It conveys the chaos of filmmaking process in front of and behind the camera and behind the scenes.

There are occasional false notes - the production manager's wife who insists on being on the shoot and watches disapprovingly as the cast and crew move in and out of each other's rooms, as funny as she is, simply doesn't ring true to the film - but in so many more cases, the details, the emotions, the mad combination of giddiness, passion and meticulousness that are needed to make a film, are captured so as to make you forget the slightly dated early 70s look. And Jacqueline Bisset is timelessly stunning in this film.

Minor notes: The movie launched the film career of Nathalie Baye as the continuity girl - her first major role; Graham Greene, the great English novelist (The Quiet American, Brighton Rock, etc.) had an uncredited cameo as the Insurance Agent - Truffaut directed the scene but did not know who the actor was until after the shot was in the can; Maurice Séveno, who appears briefly as a TV reporter, was a well-know French TV news anchor in the 60s and 70s; the score by Georges Delerue, who collaborated on many Truffaut movies, is lovely without being cloying.