Hôtel du nord

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Audience Member 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. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Glossy, fast-moving melodrama. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member 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] Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Come in the playground ! Jouvet est pénétrant, Arletty gouailleuse, j'adore. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Pour Jouvet et Arletty Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Un film qui tient chaud, un peu comme un bon vieux Fernandel. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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