French label MK2 will release on Blu-ray director Marcel Carné's
Hotel du Nord (1938), starring Arletty, Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Jouvet, and Bernard Blier. The release will be available for purchase on November 4.
Hotel du Nord was recently restored with the support of the CNC. 2K image restoration (from a 4K scan of the image nitrate negative) done by Digimage Classics. Earlier this summer, the restoration was introduced in the
Classics section of the Cannes Film Festival.
Synopsis: At the family-run Hotel du Nord, a young couple check in, planning to commit a double-suicide. Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont) shoots his lover Renée (Annabella), but then panics and flees, leaving the gun behind. Renée survives her wound after being found by pimp Edmond (Louis Jouvet). After taking a job at the hotel as a chambermaid, Renée slowly becomes involved in the shifting allegiances and relationships between the people who live and work in the hotel.