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Day and Night (1997)

Day and Night poster
Original title
Le Jour et la Nuit
Directed by
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Genre
drama film
Country
France, Canada
Runtime
1h 48m
Rated
TP
Rating
2.3 of 10 from 19 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A French writer living in Mexico seeks solitude. An actress tries to seduce him in order to get a role in a film based on his book.

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What happens

Day and Night (French: Le Jour et la Nuit) is a 1997 French drama film directed by public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy and starring Alain Delon, Lauren Bacall, Arielle Dombasle and Francisco Rabal. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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