Day for Night

Francois Truffaut was a founder of the new wave generation. French film critics who sort of mimicked veteran film writers from Hollywood from the 1950s and then added their own touch to them and called it their own. Also, Truffaut acts in this movie (as Ferrand) which was the twist I mentioned, that other directors’ or writers didn’t do in the 50’s.
Day for Night is a movie about making a movie. That to me is definitely different is its own respect. It is a comedy about the hard work that goes into filmmaking, the bleeps and blurbs, and the changes made to make the movie complete. Truffaut is first billed as Ferrand, a director whose current project is “Meet Pamela”. It is an up and coming romance drama which stars Julie (Jacqueline Bisset) as the newlywed wife of Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Leaud), who leaves him for his own father, Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Aumont).
I especially like this film because back then you didn’t really see how a movie was made and what the actors and actress went through. Making a film is not easy by no means and to put a movie about making a movie is unique and back then original. Today, a lot of DVD movies and season shows have the making of the show or movie as an option. Although Truffaut was from the old school, he converted over when the new wave kids came to town.