Hôtel du Nord /
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 Carne's bittersweet...
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| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | French |
| Language Notes: | French dialogue; English subtitles. |
| Published: |
[New York, NY] :
Criterion,
[2022]
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| Edition: | Blu-ray special edition. |
| Series: | Criterion collection ;
1139. |
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| Summary: | 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 Carne's bittersweet rhapsody of romance, betrayal, revelry, and violence. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1938. Based on the novel by Eugène Dabit. Full screen (1.37:1). Accompanied by folded sheet (10 pages) containining an essay by film and theater scholar Edward Baron Turk. Special features: Television program from 1972 on the making of the film; documentary from 1994; essay by Edward Baron Turk. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (10 pages : black and white illustrations ; 17 cm) |
| Format: | Blu-ray, region A, mono; requires Blu-ray player. |
| ISBN: | 9781681439662 1681439662 |