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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Adult Situations Movie Release: 1973 DVD Release: 03/18/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Edition: Dual Layered Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 56 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Members Wishing: 3 Genres: Comedy Drama, Showbiz Drama, Showbiz Comedy See Also: Day for Night

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 Léaud) 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. ~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide

Jacqueline Bisset - Julie
Valentina Cortese - Séverine
François Truffaut - Ferrand
Alexandra Stewart - Stacey
Jean-Pierre Aumont - Alexandre
Jean-Pierre Léaud - Alphonse
Dani - Assistant Continuity Girl

François Truffaut's comedy about making movies, Day for Night, comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. English and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. English, French, and Spanish subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include four documentaries, a vintage making-of featurette, two 1973 interviews with the director, and the theatrical trailer. This is an excellent release from Warner Bros. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide