Le jour et la nuit (1997)

User Rating:

2.7/10   

Director:

Bernard-Henri Lévy

Writers:

Jean-Paul Enthoven (writer)
Guadalupe Loaeza (writer)

Release Date:

12 February 1997 (France)

Genre:

Drama

Cast

Alain Delon	...	Alexandre
Lauren Bacall	...	Sonia
Arielle Dombasle	...	Laure
Xavier Beauvois	...	Carlo
Marianne Denicourt	...	Ariane
Francisco Rabal	...	Cristobal
Karl Zero	...	Filippi
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Vanessa Bauche	...	Muchacha
Julie du Page	...	Norma
Dionisos Espinoza	...	Mesero
Rafael González-Cidoncha	...	Priester
Jean-Pierre Kalfon	...	Lucien
Véronique Levy	...	Consuelo
Gerardo Martínez	...	Koch
Carlos Quintero	...	Leandro

Also Known As:

Day and Night
El día y la noche (Mexico)

Runtime:

108 min

Country:

France | Canada | Belgium | Spain | Mexico

Language:

French | Spanish | English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Filming Locations:

Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

Company:

Canal+

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Center Stage (2000)

there is a meaning

in this movie. It's not the best French/Delon's movie but not the worst one as previous "writer" commented. Be over 30-40 and have some brains… that guy (who wrote that he didn't get it) was definitely missing first or second. You don't have to be rocket scientist to understand this movie, just a bit thinking and "sense and sensibility" feelings. O, and you have to love Delon. He is great and this movie. Arielle Dombasle is great too and I think even too sexy for this movie. The movie is about aging,self-sacrifice,about loosing passion and inspiration and of course love that brings all that back. As I said it's far from best French movies but I wouldn't give it "2". I think 5-6 is appropriate. It's just not always happens that a movie with great/big actors becomes a masterpiece. And nobody knows why...Nor Delon, nor Bacall could save this one, but I wouldn't blame this particular director.