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Day for Night
FRANCE · 1973

Day for Night

François Truffaut
filmmaking and artistic creation the director's vision and control interpersonal conflict and drama professional responsibility the fragility of human relationships
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Synopsis

A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

Cinema Atlas Connection
The thing is, I knew from the start that I wanted to make a movie about actresses in a certain context and dealing with certain kinds of issues, and then eventually I figured that the best way to approach it would be to make a film within a film, and that immediately made me think of movies like Day for Night or Contempt or 8 1/2.
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