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Hotel du Nord
Capsule by Dave Kehr
From the Chicago Reader

Obscure Marcel Carne film from 1938, the peak year of French "poetic realism"--shadows and soliloquies. Arletty plays a prostitute, Louis Jouvet her pimp; both are holed up in a riverside hotel where Annabella and Jean-Pierre Aumont are considering a lovers' suicide. In French with subtitles. 95 min.

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