esrosedotblog

DELICIOUS

What a great movie of the day:

Truffaut's La Nuit Américaine (1973) / Day For Night.

It is a movie about making movies. The original French title refers to a shooting term: American night; filming in the day and using a filter.

We have many of the usual Truffaut players working a story side by side with the plot of the film on which they are working. And Truffaut casts himself as the director!

It is just great stuff. Very funny. Tragedy. All of it. Some of the parallels between the film and the real life of the crew and cast are fun to work out.

I always enjoy movies about movies being made. One of the best is The Stuntman but there are so many that it constitutes a genré. This is the best that I have seen.

It is one of the NYTimes Best 1176 and I will give it a 5 out of Netflix 5.