Hotel du Nord is both a popular little film, which takes an ethnographic and amused look at the social reality of its time, through its truculent gallery of characters. But it is also a rather profound and severe choral film where the cowardice of some is echoed by the cowardice of others. In the middle of life, on the Canal St. Martin, everyone has to face his or her cowardice at one time or another, or deal with it!
Review of Hotel du Nord
