Hôtel du Nord

1938 [FRENCH]

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 89% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 3676 3.7K

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Plot summary

On the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the Parisian Hôtel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple. But, amid a sad but beautiful panorama of lively characters, love has the final say. Can life be a fairy tale?

Director

Marcel Carné Photo
Marcel Carné

Top cast

Annabella Photo
Annabella as Renée
Charles Bouillaud Photo
Charles Bouillaud as Un inspecteur
Arletty Photo
Arletty as Raymonde
Bernard Blier Photo
Bernard Blier as Prosper
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889.67 MB
988*720
French 2.0
K-16
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23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 1
1.61 GB
1472*1072
French 2.0
K-16
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 8 / 10

Fatalistic and willing to look into the void

Fatalistic and willing to look into the void, Carné's poetic realist film begins with a failed double suicide pact and moves forward from there, deciding eventually that there is but one true love that we are destined to find. Although perhaps this destiny is not for everyone, because Louis Jouvet's mysterious ex-gangster winds up with no one (accepting an avoidable death instead). Arletty (playing a prostitute more frankly than Hollywood would allow) manages to struggle along making the best of her lot, pragmatically, losing Jouvet but settling for comic everyman Bertrand Blier instead. These are just a few of the characters and stories that populate the Hotel Du Nord, a low rent bar/hotel that feels like a real community albeit in an art-directed Paris created on a sound-stage with two dimensional backdrops (the poetic atmosphere that envelops the kernel of realness in the events and characters). On the eve of WWII (not even hinted at), an uncomfortable sense of the inescapable hangs ominously over the film (the sorrow and the pity were yet to come, particularly for Arletty). But at a deeper level, the yin and yang of existentialism and fatalism hold the viewer transfixed in the balance. Carne went on to make his masterpiece Les Enfants du Paradis a few years later under the auspices of the Vichy government.
Reviewed by R T 7 / 10

Glossy, fast-moving melodrama

Glossy, fast-moving melodrama.
Reviewed by Henry D 7 / 10

A good story with fun twists. Appealing actors

A good story with fun twists. Appealing actors and sets. A beautiful print - they did a great job on restoration.
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