La Nuit Americaine / Day for Night
Francois Truffaut | France / Italy | 1973 | 115 minutes
 | Day for Night/La nuit americaine was director Francois 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. The inspiration for future satires of movie-making from Living in Oblivion to Irma Vep, La nuit americaine 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.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102436/ Screening on: Sunday 14th March 2010 at 7:00PM |