Hôtel du Nord (1938)

Review: Hôtel du Nord (1938)

Director: Marcel Carné

Cast: Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Jouvet, Arletty, Paulette Dubost,

Annabella
Annabella
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Louis Jouvet
Louis Jouvet
Arletty
Arletty
Paulette Dubost
Paulette Dubost

Plot: A young couple, Renee and Pierre, take one night a room at the Hotel du Nord, in Paris, near the canal Saint-Martin. They want to die together, but having shot at Renee, Pierre lacked the courage to finish the job and fled. Another customer, Monsieur Edmond, a procurer, rescues her. When Renee goes out of the hospital, she is hired as a waitress at the hotel. Monsieur Edmond falls in love with her, but Renee is still thinking of Pierre...

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Marcel Carné&#8217;s <i>Hôtel du Nord</i> (1938): Criterion Blu-ray review

Marcel Carné’s Hôtel du Nord (1938): Criterion Blu-ray review

Doomed romance is offset by a vibrant sense of community in Marcel Carné’s Hôtel du Nord (1938), one of the filmmaker’s remarkable string of poetic realist masterpieces from the late 1930s to the mid-’40s. The film’s rich […]

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