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Lower Depths, The: 2 Disc Special Edition - The Criterion Collection  /  DVD-Video
Standard 1.33:1 B&W  /  Production Year: 1936  /  Region 1
Lower Depths, The: 2 Disc Special Edition - The Criterion Collection
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Synopsis
Jean Renoir and Akira Kurosawa, two of cinema's greatest directors, transform Maxim Gorky's classic proletariat play The Lower Depths in their own ways for their own times. Renoir, working amidst the rise of Hitler and the Popular Front in France, had need to take license with the dark nature of Gorky's source material, softening its bleak outlook. Kurosawa, firmly situated in the postwar world, found little reason for hope. He remained faithful to the original with its focus on the conflict between illusion and reality - a theme he would return to over and over again. Working with their most celebrated actors (Gabin with Renoir; Mifune with Kurosawa), each film offers a unique look at cinematic adaptation - where social conditions and filmmaking style converge to create unique masterpieces.
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Directors:
  Jean Renoir
  Akira Kurosawa
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Features:
(Les Bas-fonds) Jean Renoir 1936
Introduction to the film by Jean Renoir
A new essay by film scholar Alexander Sesonske, author of Jean Renoir: The French Films 1924-1939

(Donzoko) Akira Kurosawa 1957
Audio commentary featuring Japanese-film expert Donald Richie, author of A Hundred Years of Japanese Film
A 33-minute documentary on The Lower Depths from the series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create, including interviews with Kurosawa, actress Kyoko Kagawa, art director Yoshiro Muraki, and others
Cast Biographies by Stephen Price, author of The Warriors Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa
A new essay by authors Keiko McDonald (From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese Literature in Films) and Thomas Rimer (A Reader's Guide to Japanese Literature)
Video:
Standard 1.33:1 B&W
Audio: (more info)
FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono
JAPANESE: Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles:
English
Studio: Criterion
Production Year: 1936
Release Date: 6/22/2004

Length: 125 mins
Rating: NR
Includes: Audio Commentary

Packaging: Custom Case
Number of Discs: 2
Empire SKU: 536896
Disc: SS-DL
Item Code: LOW030
UPC Code: 037429181324
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Category: Movies

Genre: Special Editions, Art House, Classics, Criterion Collection, Foreign, French

Studios: Criterion
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