Hotel du Nord (1938)(Criterion Collection) on Blu-ray

Actor: Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Jouvet, Arletty, Paulette Dubost
Director: Marcel Carné
Genre: Drama
Year: 1938
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length: 96
Released: 08/23/2022
Rating: NR
Format: Blu-ray
Misc: NTSC, Black/White
Language: English

Anguished young lovers, fallen women, wanted criminals, and all manner of social castoffs: these are the disreputable denizens of the Hôtel du Nord, an atmospherically seedy boardinghouse on the bustling banks of the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, whose lives collide in Marcel Carné’s bittersweet rhapsody of romance, betrayal, revelry, and violence. 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—poetic-realist jewel Hôtel du Nord is a sublime exemplar of Carné’s celebrated poetic realism, imbuing working-class lives and dramas with a touching nobility.

Special Features

-New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
-New conversation between filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie) and journalist Philippe Morisson
-Television program from 1972 on the making of the film
-Documentary from 1994 on the life and career of director Marcel Carné
-Trailer
-New English subtitle translation
-PLUS: An essay by film and theater scholar Edward Baron Turk