It has been a pleasure; one is sorry it is over; and I at any rate come out feeling positively good-tempered myself.

| Aug 8, 2022

Witty, ironic, tragic, and wonderfully natural, this is a snatch of unmistakably true experience from a master who knows the film world in depth.

| Mar 7, 2022

Day for Night is tender but too fan-magazinish in approach, too tenderly shallow for its own good.

| Jan 20, 2022

Truffaut's Day For Night is a wonderfully funny evocation of the psychic netherworld in which film crews operate.

| Oct 8, 2021

The film is a combination guided tour and gossip column, documentary and exposé, guaranteed to please both young people interested in making movies and older folk curious about the mysteries of the film studio.

| Jul 23, 2020

[Day for Night is] universal in its sheer humanism, its exuberance, its tragic-comic view of people and events, and completely irresistible in its sheer love of the life it leads.

| Jun 11, 2020

Somehow, in taking us behind the curtain of how movie magic is made, Truffaut gives us even more magic. Sometimes the process is just as interesting as the product.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 15, 2019

A sometimes exasperated, sometimes melancholic meditation on the artistic process, Day for Night is one of the greatest love letters to filmmaking ever made.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 28, 2018

A glorious ode to the fleeting, addictive and irreplaceable joys of cinematic collaboration...

| May 3, 2018

Aggravating to the more seriously-minded auteurs of the French New Wave, Truffaut's film is nevertheless a deeply personal, warm and human tribute to the passion of cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2017

Unlike many a behind-the-scenes portrait, Truffaut aims for affection and amiability for most of Day for Night.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2016

François Truffaut's love letter to filmmaking

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 7, 2015

Though not one of Truffaut's strongest works, this loving tribute to the chaotic process of filmmaking is charming, which may explain its win of the best foreign language film Oscar.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 12, 2012

It is a Pirandellian affair, an elegiac celebration of a dying kind of cinema, a meditation on the connection between film and life by Truffaut...

| Feb 22, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 18, 2011

One of the great love letters to the chaos and creativity, joy and sorrow of movie-making.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 18, 2011

It is a breezy, richly enjoyable if not especially profound film about cinema: it conjures the ambient, dizzy sexiness of movie artifice, and it's also notable for a remarkable cameo by Graham Greene.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 17, 2011

[An] exhilarating, Oscar-winning celebration of the movie-making process.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 17, 2011

It's a hilarious and informative movie, and in the pantheon of films about filmmaking, it strikes a neat balance between the operatic neuroses of '8 1/2' and the warm, pastel-hued nostalgia of 'Singin' in the Rain'.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 16, 2011

Cinephiles will lap it up.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 9, 2011