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MPAA Rating - PG

Length:
    116 Minutes

Genre:
    Comedy Drama

Original Release Date:
    Mar 18, 2003

Director
    François Truffaut

Cast
    Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, François Truffaut, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Dani

 
Movie Summary
Known to English-speaking audiences as Day for Night, La nuit américaine was director François Truffauts 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 Pamelas 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 Leaud) 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


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