I found this more interesting in my capacity as a student of irony than my capacity as a movie buff. It was pleasantly rewarding to see the iconoclast and arch advocate of the 'auteur' school shooting a film about making a film that showed just how much of a team effort film making actually is yet even then he could not avoid a petulant 'voice-over' comment that from now on films would no longer be made under the old rules that demanded scripts and studios but in the streets with ad libbing all round. Shrewdly the iconoclast is aware that movie buffs enjoy seeing films ABOUT films but even his giant ego doesn't run to supposing he could ever eclipse The Bad And The Beautiful or Sunset Boulevard and for an 'auteur' he gave the lion's share of the writer credit to two other people. The film is worth seeing for the 'inside' look at film making and for the performances of Valenina Cortese and the young Nathalie Baye in only her third film and the one that first got her noticed. I'm never going to fully embrace Truffaut but with this film and La Dernier Metro he has made something at least watchable.
Review of Day for Night
