HOTEL DU NORD |
In French with English subtitles. Extrait du film REVIEWS With such a bevy of high class acting talent, directed with unwavering panache by one of France’s greatest film auteurs, how could Hôtel du Nord fail to be one of the all-time classics of French cinema? Not only is this a great film, a powerful study in inadequacy and failure, it also offers a fascinating, indeed harrowing, insight into the state of mind of the French nation in the late 1930s, giving some clue as to why the wartime years that followed would prove to be so traumatic. James travers - Films de France
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With its iconic stars (Arletty, Louis Jouvet, Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont) and dialog that most French people know by heart ("Atmosphère ? Atmosphère ? Est-ce que j'ai une gueule d'atmosphère ?"), Hôtel Du Nord is a quintessential classic. At the Hôtel du Nord, on the bank of the Canal Saint Martin in Paris, working-class people meet small-time crooks and tragic figures. A film noir precursor, it is emblematic of Marcel Carné’s "poetic realism". Saturday, June 16 - 11am & Sunday, June 17 - 8:30pm |
