Sunday 15th June at 7pm
Hôtel du Nord 1938
directed by Michel Carné
Featuring evocative production design by the famed Alexandre Trauner and a colorful ensemble cast of some of classical French cinema’s most illustrious stars, including Annabella, Louis Jouvet, and a divinely dissolute Arletty in one of her most iconic roles, Hôtel du Nord is a jewel of a film.
On the meandering Canal St. Martin at the eponymous Hôtel, guests and owners are celebrating. During the meal two young of lovers rent a room with the aim of committing suicide. During the night a shot rings out, the woman is wounded and the young man disappears. She is welcomed into the hotel’s family and hired as a waitress. Her life will then be intertwined with the life of the atmospherically seedy boardinghouse and its inhabitants, including another young woman and her pimp.
Marcel Carné adapted Eugène Dabit’s novel “Hôtel du Nord” for the screen. Dabit was none other than the son of the owners of the real Hôtel du Nord that still stands in Paris today.
Trailer for Hôtel du Nord (PG) 1h 35 mins
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Tickets cost £7