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Hotel Du Nord (DVD)

Description: Genre: Drama / Theatrical Release: 1938 / Director: Marcel Carné / Actors: Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont ... / DVD released 24 April, 2006 at Soda Pictures / Features of the DVD: PAL / A complex plot revolves around the family run 'Hotel Du Nord', located ... more

Hotel Du Nord (DVD) ... along the Canal Saint-Martin Canal in Paris. A young couple arrives and books one night having decided to kill themselves in a suicide pact. However the young man, Pierre, drops the gun and takes flight after taking the first shot at Renee, who survives and takes employment at the hotel as a chambermaid. Meanwhile the stories of a pimp and a prostitute and the various patrons and staff become interwoven in true French style.

Newest Review: ... marginal characters in the book upon which the film was based), though originally Annabella and Aumont were seen as the stars ... more

... of the film and get top billing. Surrounding the pair of lovers is a series of characters whose lives interconnect the Hotel du Nord in one way or another. Some come to the hotel to drink and to eat - for the hotel, noticeably, is described as a weekday hotel, i.e. it is to support the working classes, providing them a place to eat and drink in an atmosphere of communal friendliness. The characters that play about the margin add to the richness of the film. The lockkeeper gives blood and announces to Annabella ...more

Price Comparison for Hotel Du Nord (DVD)

L'Hotel Du Nord by Dabit - EditionsFlammarion Pages: 217, Unknown Binding, Editions Flammarion - Books/Subjec ... Last Update 21.11.2008 19:27	£ 6.24	£ 0.00
Hotel Du Nord The Hotel du Nord is a family - run hotel on the edge of the Cana ... Last Update 21.11.2008 19:27	£ 13.97
Hotel Du Nord [1938] Release Date: 2006 - 04 - 24, Rating Parental Guidance, Last Update 21.11.2008 19:27	£ 9.97	£ 0.00

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Hotel Du Nord (DVD): Hotel du Nord (1868 words)
by no_name - written on 05/03/07 (Very useful, 78 readings)
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I first saw Hotel du Nord as part of a double bill with a film by Jean Renoir (I forget which - though I think the brilliant Le Crime De Monsieur Lange) and I was frankly going to see the Renoir film and thought, hmmm, I'll just have to sit through Hotel du Nord and grin and bear it. Something about the film just really didn't appeal. Then right from the opening shot that tracks down from the bridge over the canal Saint Martin and along the side of the canal to where the two lovers, played by Annabella and Jean-Pierre Aumont, settle against one another on a bench, despairing and apparently doomed I simply didn't look back. I couldn't. Since that Sunday ...

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