Screening Report L ut mrn (1973) is an instructive Franois Truffaut s film that has its essential idea enshrined already

in title while it might make one think about an adventure in a dark place somewhere in USA, to cinema professionals its a film effect. Thus, for the nuit amrn a special filter is used to make a day scene seem to be a night one, that is similar to the way a film directors filters the complex daily life in the cinema studio so that to extract a film, an alternative life for spectators. For director Ferrard to make a film is much more than writing a scenario and then to make sure that recorded scenes correspond to it. These two processes mingle and stimulate each others evolution, only when the actors are in their roles, the crew is solid, and personal problems are solved, according to Ferrards expression. All these are present in a film-making cosmo, as to actors to play in a film is not a mere job, but rather temporary passionate living in a reservation created by a director. It is a cosmos that absorbs actors in a way that jeopardize their personal life with what Julie calls outsiders. Not that actors dont have a personal life at all, but they build one on studio with persons met there, extract from it energy for their acting, until the role is finished and all is gone. Due to her dedication to film, Joelle declared she would drop a guy for a film, but never a film for a guy. Due to her dedication to film, Julie presented Alphonso with a romance, as an attempt to keep Alphonse on studio when he was already packing his clothes. Only because she forgot that Alphonse had nowhere to leave, he forgot any other dimension, as he would get out the stage only for going to cinema. Reel life becomes more real for him than food, which is among basic needs, according to Maslow, of course, for an outsider. Director always keeps an eye on this relationship network. Helped by his assistants, he is to know why Alexander goes to airport every evening, to support Alphonse when the latter has a breakdown, to tell Julie that he knows her husband would excuse her, as he is wonderful, to congratulate Liliane for

upcoming wedding he heard about . He even has to know the relationships between certain actors before inviting them, so that all together can assure a social chemistry favorable to film production. What Ferrard proves by his attitude in L ut mrn and Truffaut states explicitly in an interview taken by Frane Roche, is that in order to give life to a film, he loves actors very much. The director knows as well as possible each actors background and medical condition, and behaves like a prudent conductor. This is stressed in the passage when Severine retook for 7 times a short scene. When her speech whirls in every spectators mind and that I dont understand you, Alexandre. You are peculiar becomes annoying, people in the cinema feel deeply the tension director also must experience. But he remains patient and it seems uncomfortably idealized, until we hear from his assistant, Julie, that the actress son is dying of leukemia. While actors have little time left to experience different relations mainly on studio, the directors responsibility to harmonize these life sequences denies his right to have his own personal life, as Ferrard clearly said, with no tone of regret. Among all, he always has to answer questions about color of a wig, what gun to use in film, if a dress is good for maids role, etc. He had nights left to himself, meaning that nobody bothered him, but the film was still present. In his dreams he remembers phrases heard during the day, and tries to figure out how these can help this film. He is nowhere else but in his film. The process is started and it cannot be stopped until film is ready. Its like in a Western movie, explains Ferrard, when one goes to a trip, but because of difficulties he later only hopes to reach the destination. In contrast with the whole feverish process is the final phrase in the film about film: And we hope audiences will enjoy seeing it as much as we enjoyed making it. Although Bernard seems to say it enthusiastically, prior knowledge makes it sound ironical. Camera zooms out greatly after this memorable phrase and causes a similar mental process great generalization. No matter how entertaining a film on reel is, there is boiling intense life and a restless director.