Only Francois Truffaut, always the most bittersweet director of the French New Wave, could make a movie in which romantic leapfrogging on the set of a movie production could proceed with such matter-of-fact brio. For 1973’s Day for Night Truffaut co-writes, directs, and stars as Ferrand, a director dealing with a never-ending series of minor calamities in the production of his latest movie. (Bret McCabe)

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