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Hôtel du Nord

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Original title

Hôtel du Nord

Year

1938

Running time

95 min.

Country

France

Director

Marcel Carné

Screenwriter

Jean Aurenche, Henri Jeanson. Novel: Eugène Dabit

Cast

Music

Maurice Jaubert

Cinematography

Armand Thirard, Louis Née (B&W)

Producer

Impérial Film, Sédif Productions

Genre

Drama. Romance | Melodrama. French Poetic Realism

Synopsis

At the family-run Hotel du Nord, a young couple check in, planning to commit a double-suicide. Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont) shoots his lover Renée (Annabella), but then panics and flees, leaving the gun behind. Renée survives her wound after being found by pimp Edmond (Louis Jouvet). After taking a job at the hotel as a chambermaid, Renée slowly becomes involved in the shifting allegiances and relationships between the people who live and work in the hotel.

Hotel du Nord was the second in Marcel Carne's trio of "fatalistic romantic melodramas", bracketed on either side by Quai des Brumes and Le Jour se Leve.

Awards: 1940: New York Film Critics Circle: Nominated for Best Foreign Lenguage Film

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"No doubt, 'Hotel du Nord' is a triumph of its time in production design and cinematography. The set was created on a studio lot to mimic the real Canal (...) that adds somewhat to this poetic realism"

Shelagh Rowan-Legg: Screen Anarchy

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Hôtel du Nord

1938

Marcel Carné

7.1

(552)