Hôtel du nord

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Henry D @Henry_Domke Feb 20 A good story with fun twists. Appealing actors and sets. A beautiful print - they did a great job on restoration. See more 02/22/2017 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. See more 03/31/2016 Glossy, fast-moving melodrama. See more 03/31/2016 Renee e Pierre, una giovane coppia, decidono di suicidarsi in una stanza dell'Hotel du Nord, sul canale Saint-Mart, a Parigi. Dopo aver sparato a Renee, Pierre, non trovando il coraggio di farla finita, fugge. E' un altro cliente dell'albergo, il procuratore Monsieur Edmond, a scoprire la ragazza agonizzante. Dimessa dall'ospedale, Renee viene impiegata come cameriera in quello stesso albergo. Monsieur Edmond s'innamora di lei, ma il cuore della giovane è ancora per Pierre....[cinematografo.it] See more 03/31/2016 Come in the playground ! Jouvet est pénétrant, Arletty gouailleuse, j'adore. See more 03/31/2016 Pour Jouvet et Arletty See more Read all reviews

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