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Initial release 12 February 1997 Music director Maurice Jarre | 2.2/10 IMDb Director Bernard-Henri Lévy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Screenplay Bernard-Henri Lévy, Jean-Paul Enthoven, Guadalupe Loaeza Producers Denise Robert, Eric Dussart, Jacques de Clercq Cast Alain Delon, Arielle Dombasle, Lauren Bacall, Marianne Denicourt, Xavier Beauvois Similar Nouvelle Vague, Indian Summer, The Widow Couderc, Someone Is Bleeding, The Unvanquished | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Day and Night (French: Le Jour et la Nuit) is a 1997 French film directed by philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy and starring Alain Delon. The film follows a French author who fled to Mexico for a quiet life and an actress who is willing to seduce him to get a part in a film adapted from one of his books. It is considered by some to be one of the worst films of all time.
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Reception
When the film premiered at the 47th Berlin International Film Festival in 1997, hundreds of journalists walked out of the screening and those that stayed audibly ridiculed the film. Day and Night was considered the worst French film since 1945 by Cahiers du cinéma, and considered as a possible "worst film in history" by the French version of Slate. Variety claimed that the film was, "Laugh-out-loud awful without touching the cult realm of 'so bad it's good," Françoise Giroud stated "It's a bad movie, there's no question", and L'Humanité called it an "Absolute debacle". An original documentary, Anatomy of a Massacre, was released with the Day and Night DVD, and focused on the film's intense negative reception and failure.