Day for Night12A

Directed by Francois Truffaut | France | 1973 | 1h 56m | French w/ English subtitles | Starring Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Léaud, François Truffaut, Valentina Cortese, Alexandra Stewart

Neurotic actors, drunken divas, and cats refusing to act plague a committed film director as he struggles to complete his film due to a myriad of crises, both personal and professional, among the cast and crew. A breezy yet affectionate farcical comedy from François Truffaut about the joys and strife of filmmaking which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1973.

Reviews

‘[An] exhilarating, Oscar-winning celebration of the movie-making process.’
★★★★★
David Parkinson, Radio Times

‘It’s a hilarious and informative movie, and in the pantheon of films about filmmaking, it strikes a neat balance between the operatic neuroses of ‘8 1/2’ and the warm, pastel-hued nostalgia of ‘Singin’ in the Rain’.’
★★★★
David Jenkins, Time Out

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