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    Day For Night

    Jul 05, 2020 4 minutes
    IAN FREER

    THERE ARE SOME films that express the ecstasy in filmmaking (). There are others that capture the agony (. But only () perfectly encapsulates both. Titled after the process of shooting night-time scenes during the day, François Truffaut’s to movies — making them, watching them, dreaming about them — is the Valentine the art form deserves. Writing to critic Jean-Louis Bory, Truffaut declared, “I gathered up all of myself and reconciled it into , which is quite simply about my reason for living.” The result is heartfelt, freewheeling and nimble. It simultaneously pulls back the curtain onhas it all.

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