LA Nuit Americaine

La Nuit americaine (Day for Night, 1972) charts the pleasures and pains enjoyed or endured by the cast and crew of a film as it is being shot in the Victorine Studios in Nice. The film explores the relationship between director and film, reality and fiction, and won the Oscar for the Best Foreign Film in 1973.
This compelling, intimate book draws extensively on research in the archives of Truffaut's company, Les Films du Carrosse, and on interviews with many of the film's cast and crew. La Nuit americaine (Day for Night, 1972) charts the pleasures and pains enjoyed or endured by the cast and crew of a film as it is being shot in the Victorine Studios in Nice. The film explores the relationship between director and film, reality and fiction, and won the Oscar for the Best Foreign Film in 1973.
This compelling, intimate book draws extensively on research in the archives of Truffaut's company, Les Films du Carrosse, and on interviews with many of the film's cast and crew.