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The Lower Depths
Directed by
Jean Renoir
Not Rated
1936
1h 32m
Crime
,
Drama
,
and more
7.5
89%
81%
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A charismatic thief makes friends with a bankrupt baron who comes to live in the thief's slum. Meanwhile the thief seeks the love of a young woman, who is held emotionally captive by her slumlord family.
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Where to Watch The Lower Depths
Criterion Channel
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Cast of The Lower Depths
Jean Gabin
Pepel Wasska
Suzy Prim
Vassilissa Kostyleva
Louis Jouvet
Le baron
Jany Holt
Nastia, la prostituée
Junie Astor
Natacha, la sœur de Vassilissa
Nathalie Alexeief-Darsène
Anna
Vladimir Sokoloff
le vieux Kostileff
Robert Le Vigan
l'acteur alcoolique
Camille Bert
le comte
André Gabriello
le commissaire Toptoum
René Génin
Lukas, le philosophe
Léon Larive
Félix, le valet de chambre du baron
Maurice Baquet
Aliocha, le fou accordéoniste
Paul Grimault
Uncredited
Jean Renoir
Director / Writer
Charles Spaak
Writer
Evgeny Zamyatin
Writer
Jacques Companéez
Writer
Alexandre Kamenka
Producer
The Lower Depths Ratings & Reviews
Esquire Magazine
Meyer Levin (Patterson Murphy)
...beautifully acted by all, and very well directed by Jean Renoir. Just misses permanency.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
Gabin did not attain the international status of American counterparts or later countryman Belmondo, though his Pepel here is a thing of beauty.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
The text is Gorky's, the names and the whiskers are Russian, yet the world here is wholly French, or, rather, wholly Jean Renoir's
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
It carries some interest in its curious blend of tones and styles -- it oscillates between vaudeville turns and stark tragedy.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Renoir sought out balance and humanistic sympathy, reshaping the narrative so the thief (Jean Gabin) and the Baron (Louis Jouvet) bond over their mutual rebellion against the social system.
Filmcritic.com
Jake Euker
The Lower Depths both gains and loses by its proximity to Renoir's later masterpieces: It's not one of them them, but the same guy made it.
TV Guide
The relationship between Gabin's Pepel and Jouvet's Baron is a brilliant one -- Renoir pointing to their internal similarities by stressing their external differences.
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