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The State of Things
Why this pick
Like Day for Night, it turns a troubled shoot into an affectionate, melancholy reflection on filmmaking, balancing backstage absurdity with a drifting, self-aware mood.
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MOVIE1973 1h 56m FRA
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Why this pick
Its film-within-a-film structure echoes Truffaut’s playful layering of performance and private life, with actors’ offscreen entanglements mirroring their roles.
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Living in Oblivion
Why this pick
A warmer, scrappier cousin to Day for Night: a director tries to hold an independent production together as technical mishaps and fragile egos compound.
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Irma Vep
Why this pick
It shares Truffaut’s fascination with the chaos and camaraderie of a film set, but brings a more nervy, contemporary energy to artistic compromise and cinephilia.
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The Player
Why this pick
For Day for Night’s love of movie-world personalities and self-reflexive humor, this offers a sharper, more satirical tour of filmmaking’s creative and commercial pressures.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jacqueline Bisset
Julie
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Alphonse
Valentina Cortese
Severine
François Truffaut
Ferrand, the director
Jean-François Stévenin
Jean-François
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Alexandre
Danièle Graule
Liliane
Alexandra Stewart
Stacey