Hotel du nord louis jouvert arletty biography
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Marcel Carne’s Hotel Du Nord is seen as part of a trilogy that encompasses two other of his films from the 1930s: Le quai des brumes (Port of Shadows 1938) and Le jour se lève (Daybreak 1939). These films represent what has been termed ‘poetic realism’, a gritty fatalistic French cycle of films seen as a precursor of the classic spelfilm noir cycle, with a male protagonist failing dismally to escape a dark past with a doomed romantic entanglement. Unlike the other two movies, Hotel du Nord is not based on a script from Carne’s famed collaborator, Jacques Prévert, but bygd scenarist jean Aurenche, which some critics see as a weakness. The spelfilm has on the surface a lighter touch, and much of the dialog crackles with simple humanity, jokes and good-natured innuendo. But there are deeper layers of meaning, and these komma from the screenplay.
The scenario revolves around the daglig dramas of a not-so-grande hotel in downtown Paris. Amongst others, of princi
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I like to think here at FilmsNoir.Net, readers are made aware of movies that are under the radar and do not fit established categories, genres or movie lists. Many such films were made by major studios on modest budgets and while not likely to make best-of listings or have major genre standing, they are pictures that are good entertainment made with craft and discipline, and sometimes with special elements that reward the discerning viewer.
Two such films were made in 1950 and, while having noir aspects, are largely entertainment features made memorable by facets that have been largely ignored by film reviewers and other writers on film.
Young Man with a Horn from Warner Bros. was directed by Michael Curtiz, and Joseph H.Lewis directed A Lady Without Passport which was produced by MGM.
Each of these films is special in its own way.
Young Man with a Horn is loosely based on the biography of jazz trumpeter Bix Beiderdecke: the story of how a lonely kid in L.A. learns the
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Director: Marcel Carné
Cast: Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Jouvet
Certificate: PG
By Sarah Morgan
France shortly before the horrors of the Second World War is the setting for Marcel Carné’s classic drama.
Before the French New Wave arrived, Carne was perhaps the country’s most famous and acclaimed director; many of his works, including Le Jour Se Leve, Children of Paradise and Port of Shadows, are still revered today.
The last on that list was, however, controversial on its release in 1938, thanks to its depiction of an army deserter. Because of that, when it came to his next project, he wanted to steer clear of anything political. The result is Hôtel du Nord, an adaptation of Eugene Dabit’s well-regarded novel about a collection of people who live and work in the titular Parisian establishment.
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Among them are photogenic young couple Renée and Pierre. They seem to have everything going for them, but they are in despair, believing they ha