Criterion spine #239
The Lower Depths
1936Directed by Jean Renoir, Akira Kurosawa
This set presents two contrasting screen adaptations of Maxim Gorky's play about the destitute lodgers of a squalid flophouse. Jean Renoir's 1936 French version, made amid the Popular Front, softens the source into a more hopeful, romantic register with Jean Gabin and Louis Jouvet.…
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