Day for Night 1973

La Nuit américaine may be a 1973 French film directed by François Truffaut. It stars Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Pierre Léaud. In French, nuit américaine (American night) may be a technical method whereby sequences recorded outdoors in daylight ar shot exploitation wolfram (artificial light) or infrared film stock and underexposed (or dim throughout post production) to seem as if they're happening at nighttime. within the communicatory world the film is understood as Day for Night, that is that the equivalent English expression for the method.

La Nuit américaine chronicles the assembly of Je Vous Présente Paméla (Meet Pamela, conjointly spoken as i would like you to satisfy Pamela), a clichéd comedy prima aging screen icon, Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Aumont), former operatic star Séverine (Valentina Cortese), young heart-throb Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and a British histrion, Julie Baker (Jacqueline Bisset) WHO is ill  from each a crack-up and also the difference of opinion resulting in her wedding together with her a lot of older doctor.
In between are many tiny vignettes chronicling the stories of the crew-members and also the director; Ferrand (Truffaut himself) tangles with the sensible issues one deals with once creating a show. Behind the camera, the actors and crew bear many romances, affairs, break-ups, and sorrows. the assembly is particularly upset once one in every of the secondary actresses is unconcealed to be pregnant. Later Alphonse's bride-to-be leaves him for the film's stuntman, that leads Alphonse into a palliative one-night stand with associate degree accommodating Julie; whereat, interpretation Julie's pity sex for true love, the infantile Alphonse informs Julie's husband of the affair. Finally, Alexandre dies on the thanks to hospital once a automobile accident.