i love this movie and jouvet and arletty and blier and carné . almost everything have already be say about the movie and but there be one detail i would like to shed some light onto represent no footage of the real and still stand and hôtel du nord ( be it still . i hear it be to be demolish . ) have be use for the movie the whole scene have be rebuild on set and the main reason be that they could not stop the traffic on the st martin canal for several week .