There's nothing very profound about DAY FOR NIGHT, but it is a fun examination of how films are made, what it's like to be on a set making them, and the obsession with film that fuels them. Truffaut is just a bit of a ham playing the director, but he keeps it so businesslike that you don't really concentrate on what he's doing. Bisset is eye candy but has a pivotal role built on the adage that "the show must go on," and the rest of the cast is entertaining. The real star is the cinematographer, whose visuals are often a dance between the camera we see through and the cameras in the film-within-a-film. Overall, if you'd like to know how movies are made (and somehow haven't absorbed that information by osmosis!), DAY FOR NIGHT is a sweet and harmless introduction to the world of movies.
Review of Day for Night
