Hotel of North

Hôtel of North is a Film French, carried out by Marcel Carné, left on the screens in 1938.

Synopsis

With the Hotel of the North, located along the Channel Saint Martin's day at Paris, owners and customers are joined together with table to celebrate a communion. Pierre and Renee, two young people in love sad enter, who come to rent a room there to commit suicide. Mr. Edmond, it, fled his medium and live with Mrs. Raymonde a joint room. In the night, a shot resounds…

Comments

There is no doubt, the cinema of Marcel Carné is pessimistic. The characters seem blocked, tetanized by a very often hereditary lack of confidence which sometimes makes them wrongly show a company indifferent in their connection. Their worst enemies are only themselves.

Pierre and Renee are in failure, their personal approaches negative of the life are in contradiction with the variegated fauna which joyeusement celebrates a communion in the hotel where they penetrate to finish some. Their vision of the future is dismaying, without spring. So young people and already if turned sour…

The final solution not having functioned, Pierre loosely flees by leaving wounded Renee.

Mr Edmond, former gangster with the doubtful past, feels attracted by this youth blocked on the ground which changes it continual moanings of his/her partner, Raymonde, prostitute with the high verb which while being subjected clamp its right to independence. Sought by former companions of plunders, it maintains with Renee a relation which metamorphose it and makes of him for a time a frequentable character.

The new “family” of Renee, following her distress, surrounds it by affection. The owner of the hotel is paternalist without preconceived ideas, it treats Renee like his daughter, his wife loving and protective supplements a tenderizing table which takes name of “family”.

The starting drama, avoided accuracy by the bad luck of a bad shot, reveals a poignant solidarity between the beings of which some benefit without complexes from opportunities to seize: the truck-driver does not hesitate with cocufier the lockkeeper more or less practically agreeing under his glance. In spite of this small skid, the cordial climate of the unit contrasts with the depressing starting remarks of Pierre and Renee on the company.

This popular small world, evolving/moving at the edge of the Saint Martin's day channel in a crammed hotel, gives its noble letters in the very often pejorative term, “promiscuity”.

The legendary counterpart of Henri Jeanson pronounced in to and from by Raymonde and Edmond “My life is not an existence, if you believe that my existence is a life” returns out of mirror their unconscious and voluntary refusal to take off their greyness.

The defeatism is continuously maintained: the final scene where Edmond faces his old band is significant renouncement of a private man of energy.

On the other hand, the rage of living is maintained by Raymonde which rebounds and carries on its road.

Pierre and Renee will be entitled to one second chance.

Data sheet

Title: Hotel of North
Realization: Flesh-colored Marcel
Scenario according to the novel of Eugene Dabit
Adaptation: Henri Jeanson, Jean Aurenche
Dialog: Henri Jeanson
Assistants realizer: Claude Walter, Pierre Blondy
Images: Armand Thirard
Operator: Louis Born, assisted of Roger Arrignon and Roger Felloux
Assembly: Rene Hénaff, Marthe Gottié
Decorations: Alexandre Trauner
Costumes: Lou Tchimoukov
Music: Maurice Jaubert
Sound: Marcel Courmes
Production: Imperial Film, Directing SEDIF
of production: Jean Levy-Strauss
Chief of production: Joseph Lucachevitch
Distribution: Cocinor
Turning: September 1938 in the studios " Paris-Studio-cinema of Billancourt and " Pathé-Cinéma" from Paris
Format: Black and white - Its monophonic - 35mm
Kind: Dramatic comedy
Lasted: 95 minutes
Coming out date: December 10th 1938

Distribution

Annabella : Renee, promised in marriage of Pierre
Arletty: Mrs. Raymonde, the prostitute
Louis Jouvet: Mr. Edmond, the guard of Mrs. Raymonde
Jean-Pierre Aumont: Pierre, promised in marriage of Renee
Andre Brunot: Emile Lecouvreur, the owner of the hotel
Jane Marken: Louise Lecouvreur, the owner of the hotel
Paulette Dubost: Ginette Trimaux, the woman of Prosper
Bernard Blier: Prosper Trimaux, blood lockkeeper and donor
François Périer: Adrien, a customer of the hotel
Henri Bosc: Nazarède, a gangster who seeks Mr. Edmond
Marcel André: the surgeon
Raymone: Jeanne, the cleaning lady
Génia Vaury: The nurse
Andrex: Accustomed Kenel, one of the hotel
Rene Bergeron: Maltaverne, the gendarme
Jacques Louvigny: Accustomed Munar, one of the hotel
Armand Lurville: The police chief
Allied Rene: An accomplice of Nazarède
Marcel Fathers: A customer of the restaurant of the hotel
Charles Bouillaud: An inspector
Marcel Melrac: A policeman
Albert Malbert: A customer of the restaurant of the hotel
Gilded Fraud: One appearing in the restaurant
Albert Rémy

Around film

It is in this film that Arletty pronounces celebrates it “Atmosphere? Atmosphere? Do I have a mouth of atmosphere? ” , counterpart which is one of most famous French cinema. However, like points out it Jacques Lourcelles, this counterpart less emphasizes the force of the dialogs of film than genius of Arletty which, starting from a counterpart which could have been rather heavy, succeeded in creating an unforgettable feature become the symbol of the Parisian gouaille.
Except for some plans, the film was turned to the Studios of Billancourt where the hotel of North and the Canal Saint Martin's day were entirely reconstituted by Alexandre Trauner. The uneven one of the lock is absent from decoration. Paradoxically, the hotel of North (where the film was thus not turned) was classified historic building in 1989 thanks to film, to protect it from a project of demolition.
the Hotel of North is today an establishment always in activity in the shape of a restaurant-bar.

Bonds

the official site of the restaurant

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