Day and Night
Synopsis
A writer who no longer writes, Alexandre: a boxer in his prime, connoisseur of women, hot air ballooning, and Indian legends, self-exiled in a sumptuous but crumbling hacienda in the heart of Mexico. A young actress, Laure, dreams of being the heroine of his first novel to be brought to the screen. One spring morning she arrives from Paris - breezy, full of hope, set to seduce Alexandre, and happily unaware of her own impending fate. Around them, a comical film producer bent on getting the rights to Alexandre's novel, a perverse secretary, a once-loved wife and her live-in-lover, a local boss who distracts Alexandre from his melancholy, Sonia, the mysterious Sonia, who has known him forever and who seems to hold the secret to his existence. And, as through in harmony with the extreme violence of their passions, the scorched Mexican soil, its smoldering volcanoes and brewing peasant revolt. What does the young actress really want? What will the writer's final decision be? And how right is the Indian legend that says that each man is born twice in the course of his life and that his true birth is the second one? To find this out, they have only one day and one night.
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Director (1)
Actors (9)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Les Films du Lendemain
- Co-productions : M6 Films, France 2 Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : Nomad Films, RTL TVI - Télévision Indépendante, Cinémaginaire, Cartel S.A.
- Film exports/foreign sales : France tv distribution
- French distribution : MKL/Lazennec Diffusion
Full credits (13)
- Executive Producer : Éric Dussart
- Screenwriters : Jean-Paul Enthoven, Bernard-Henri Lévy
- Director of Photography : Willy Kurant
- Music Composer : Maurice Jarre
- Assistant Director : Olivier Horlait
- Editor : France Duez
- Sound Recordist : François Musy
- Costume designer : Marielle Robaut
- Line Producer : Jean-Michel Lacor
- Production managers : Gerardo Barrera, Antoine Gannagé, Daniel Louis
- Press Attaché (film) : François Hassan Guerrar
- Assistant editors : Agathe Devaux-Charbonnel, Magalie Magnan
- Production Designer : Solange Zeitoun
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Love
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Belgium, Spain, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Belgium, Spain, France)
- Production year : 1996
- French release : 14/02/1997
- Runtime : 1 h 52 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 89.266
- Visa issue date : 14/02/1997
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
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Pierre Billard : "When you hire a cast of actors on the scale of Delon and Lauren Bacall, they arrive with their talent but also their legend. Does that help things or make them more complicated ?"
Bernartd-Henri Lévy : "It's an amazing challenge above all. Take Delon. He isn't an actor. He's a slab of memory. A history of cinema in his own right. He is a tremendous actor who has worked with the greatest talents, in the greatest films. You obviously can't put him in a boxing ring without thinking of Rocco, film him in a swimming-pool without seeing him with Maurice Ronet, ask him to dance without thinking of the ball in "The Leopard" or film him with Marianne Denicourt or Arielle Dombasle without seeing all the faces of the women who were his co-stars for Visconti or Antonioni. In short, he is one of those film giants who, for this reason and a few others, are hard to direct. Yet the magical thing with him is that there is always a moment on the set when he seems to forget what he has been, helps you yourself to forget it and so reinvents himself. That moment is always overwhelming. All that is also of course true about the film's other "giant" : Lauren Bacall." (Taken from the press kit)
