Day for Night (Film)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. La nuit américaine is a 1973 French film directed by François Truffaut. It stars Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Pierre Léaud. In French, nuit américaine is a technical process whereby sequences filmed outdoors in daylight are underexposed to appear as if they are taking place at night. In the English-speaking world the film is known as Day for Night, which is the equivalent English expression.La Nuit américaine chronicles the production of Je Vous Présente Paméla, a clichéd melodrama starring aging screen icon, Alexandre, former diva Séverine, young heart-throb Alphonse and a British actress, Julie Baker who is recovering from both a nervous breakdown and the controversy leading to her marriage with her much older doctor. In between are several small vignettes chronicling the stories of the crew-members and the director; Ferrand's tangles with the practical problems one deals with when making a movie