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The result of collaboration between the director Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert poet in the script, with music by Maurice Jaubert with staging a theatrical feature, couldn't result in more than a typical sample called "poetic realism". "Hotel du Nord" is, therefore, one of the key works within this ism artistic.
As its title announces, the hotel grounds, with its revisited rooms, is the real protagonist of the movie, since most of the action takes place in or nearby the famous parisian establishment, on the banks of the Seine. This is to highlight the very applied photography and staging, which bustles all human microcosm, with their different psychologies.
From my point of view, which weakens the script more about the study of personalities would be precisely in the same axis, in the couple of young lovers who serves as a link, frame story, the film . Their love story seems very confusing and ambiguous, fails to penetrate sufficiently. Especially considering the usual hyper-romanticism that usually characterizes such relationships in various collaborations Carné-Prévert. Despite the above, which run parallel stories, including those of the other couples (Arletty-Jouvet well above) take their important space and balance the product to the optimum. Here is where the story becomes more density, supported by some unforgettable scenery as in the sequence inside the room, crowded with workers, or the festival and dance in the courtyard held on 14 July.
Evergreen Cinema, halfway between the lyrical more refined and manners more populist.
6/10
