The Lower Depths

posted by admin, February 3, 2012 @ 3:35 pm

Movie: The Lower Depths

  • Director: Jean Renoir
  • Release Date: December 03, 1936
  • Run Time: 90 mins
  • Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

The winner of the Louis Delluc Prize as the most outstanding French photo-play of 1936, as selected by the Young Independent Critics of France (an organization and not a description.) The film treats the imprisoning hold of poverty; the disheartening odds of people rising from such social despair, and the ease in which those in the upper spheres of Society may descend.

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