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1973
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5.0
That is not the case with Francois Truffauts funny and touching film, Day for Night, which is not only the best movie ever made about the movies but i ..
Rogerebert
4.0
He delivers the same coolly detached performance too, though it works a lot better in this context.
Time Out
5.0
The greatest film ever made about filmmaking.Some might lean toward Singin in the Rain.
5.0
The shooting schedule proceeds like a crap game all guesswork and lots of luck.
Spirituality And Practice
3.0
It might not be a great film or one of Truffauts arty ones, but its entertaining, observant and witty.
Sover
5.0
exhilarating, Oscar winning celebration of the movie making process.
Radio Times
3.0
If theres a fault, you could cite a lack of real drama; despite an on set fling and an off stage death, the emotional temperature never rises above an ..
Independent
4.4
The actors come alive with enough mini dramas for a couple of daytime soap operas.
Internet Reviews
2.0
Replete with inside jokes and poignant allusions to other films and filmmakers, Day for Night is a richly dense, self reflexive film that goes way bey ..
Emanuellevy
5.0
It is a Pirandellian affair, an elegiac celebration of a dying kind of cinema, a meditation on the connection between film and life by Truffaut...
Guardian
4.0
The cinema is like real life only better!.Even the longueurs and irritations of filming have a dramatic shape lacking in the drab and messy wasteland ..
Guardian
3.8
Unfortunately, much of the drama in Day for Night is not terribly engaging, although it is just interesting enough to keep the film moving forward.
Q Network
5.0
There is even a cameo from Graham Greene in what remains a sheer delight for film buffs.
Express
4.0
Be thankful you dont live in the Destiny universe.Theres the whole end of humanity thing happening, of course, but even traditionally happy times of t ..
Total Film
3.5
The French master has taken a large number of dramatic elements and made them fresh and funny.
Boxoffice Magazine
4.0
Day for Night is a warm love letter to cinema, but its lightness of spirit arguably translates to a lightness of substance.
Cine Vue
3.0
The quality of an experience cannot be measured by its duration or its end.
Ny Times
5.0
Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film..Well, Truffaut did finish his film.
Montreal Film Journal
4.0
The mainstream appeal is understandable.Unlike many a behind the scenes portrait, Truffauts story of the frictions on a fictional film shoot aims for ..
The Skinny
3.0
Truffaut clearly communicates his consummate love for film in ways certain to bring knowing smiles to all movie lovers
Old School Reviews
4.5
The film is a combination guided tour and gossip column, documentary and expos, guaranteed to please both young people interested in making movies and ..
Esquire Magazine
4.0
A sometimes exasperated, sometimes melancholic meditation on the artistic process, Day for Night is one of the greatest love letters to filmmaking eve ..
The Retro Set
4.5
In What Roman Polanski, now pushing forty, displays his self indulgent negation of his proven talents and promised growth.
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