Sunday 18 September 2016

La Nuit Americaine / Day For Night (1973 Francois Truffaut)

I like a film about film-making, and this is the best of all of them, reviewed well here.

Written by Truffaut with The Bride Wore Black's Jean-Louis Richard, aided by Suzanne Schiffman who is also assistant director. In a neat twist, she also recommended Nathalie Baye (Beautiful Lies, Catch Me If You Can, The Green Room, The Man Who Loved Women) as her own character the script girl. 

Jean-Luc Godard claimed in making the film that Truffaut had 'sold out', told him so by letter and they fell out irrevocably. What an arsehole.

Great music from Georges Delerue.

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