The title of the Christopher Frank novel on which this film was based is the same as that of the François Truffaut film, Day for Night (La Nuit Américaine), but the vision of show people contained herein, and of humanity as a whole, is decidedly darker than Truffaut's. In this tempestuous tale of the redemptive properties of love, Romy Schneider has perhaps her richest role anywhere outside a Claude Sautet movie, an actress reduced to working in sexploitation films to support her impotent husband (Jacques Dutronc). At this low point of her life, her path crosses that of a cynical photojournalist (Fabio Testi) who becomes infected with the idea of "saving" her by backing her in a stage production of Richard III -- which briefly throws a spotlight on Klaus Kinski as a flamboyant homosexual actor (no comparisons need be drawn to the homosexual Richard in The Goodbye Girl). Between the two sullied principal characters, and out of the most sordid circumstances, ultimately flowers a grand passion of almost mythic dimensions. Directed by Andrzej Zulawski. (1974) — Duncan Shepherd
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