Images - The Lower Depths

<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="2"><p>DVD Review <font size="4"><br><i>The Lower Depths</i></font> <br>by David Gurevich</font> <p>Although he sliced up Maxim Gorky's play radically, Jean Renoir kept the Russian names and the Czarist period. In 1957, Akira Kurosawa, the late great <i>maītre</i> of Japanese cinema, took the opposite tack: he stuck faithfully to the original, but moved the setting to mid-19th-century Japan and livened up the oppressive interiors by using contemporary music. </body>