Nearly every transmission over the on-set PA system, or hustling message among crewmembers, announces Severine - her needs, her wants, her comings, her goings, even her wig status - and, all together, subtly constructs the character as a high-maintenance diva even in the actress' absence. (Let alone her glamour.) Nonetheless, as played by Supporting Actress nominee Valentina Cortese, Severine hovers just above much of this film.
Yet, just above or beyond all of this mundanity is "Severine" - a legendarily talented and glamourous leading lady in her youth, now relegated to supporting parts that neither sustain nor inspire her. Truffaut's film mines enthralling moments from the petty yet fascinating minutiae that routes the workaday actions of, say, the "script-girl" Joelle or the production-manager's wife. The eclectic cast and crew (helmed by Truffaut himself playing the film's director) and their internecine personal sagas become a much better source for compelling drama than "Meet Pamela" - the patently mediocre fictive "movie" ostensibly at the center of the film. Truffaut's Day for Night builds its loose but intricate narrative upon the "dramatic" structure of a film shoot, with the film's first scene being the first day of filming and the final scene happening the day the project wraps. Valentina Cortese in Day For Night (1974)Īpproximately 18 minutes and 27 seconds on-screen Much like the perverse pleasures provided by.
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The Stinkys remain a touch nonplussed by For Your Consideration but - truth be told - the movie's got a few moments of uninhibited, eye-popping orgiastic excess (actresses playing actresses) that are like crack for hardcore actressexuals like StinkyLulu.
Then again, this week's Turkey day became a kind of meta-movie day with bookend screenings of, first, the Stinkys' pre-feast screening of Christopher Guest's curious homage to movie-makers, For Your Consideration, and finally concluding with StinkyLulu's late night viewing of François Truffaut's legendary elegy for filmmaking, Day for Night (1974) - aka La nuit américaine (1973). A couple weeks back, the Stinkys took in Scorsese's latest The Departed (MrStinky lurved it Lulu was all "feh") the same day that StinkyLu screened Scorsese's 1974 success, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. November's brought some cinematic serendipity, wherein StinkyLulu's screenings of new films at the cinema just happen to fit provocatively with the home-viewing schedule.
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