Day for Night is a 1973 French film directed by
François Truffaut. It stars
Jacqueline Bisset and
Jean-Pierre Léaud. It is named after the filmmaking process referred to in French as
la nuit américaine ("American night"), whereby sequences filmed outdoors in daylight are shot using
film stock balanced for tungsten (indoor) light and underexposed (or adjusted during post production) to appear as if they are taking place at night. In English the technique is called
day for night, and the film's title is thus translated as
Day for Night.