{"id":147,"date":"2006-11-19T18:06:45","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T22:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/147"},"modified":"2007-05-30T23:23:12","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T03:23:12","slug":"the-lower-depths-1936-jean-renoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/147","title":{"rendered":"The Lower Depths (1936, Jean Renoir)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Gabin is Pepel, lifelong thief, lives in a shifty boarding house, likes his girlfriend&#8217;s sister.  Girlfriend&#8217;s dad owns the place but doesn&#8217;t enjoy it one bit.  Along comes Louis Jouvet as The Baron, or ex-Baron, as he&#8217;s fired from his post for unpaid gambling debts as soon as he&#8217;s introduced.  Pepel met the Baron after breaking into his house, and they become good friends at the boarding house.  But life is hard: the resident poet kills himself and Pepel gets into trouble when the old man dies in a fight.  But in the end, Pepel gets off easily, wanders into the sunset with his new girlfriend, and the Baron stays behind.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/lowerdepthsr1.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/lowerdepthsr3.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leave it to Renoir to turn a bitter, harsh reality-check on the &#8220;lower depths&#8221; of humanity into actually a pretty upbeat and hopeful movie, if you look at it a certain way.  Enjoyed it pretty well&#8230; more than La Bete Humanine for the most part.  Will wait for further comment till I see the Kurosawa version.  Katy did not watch it, but I&#8217;m sure she wanted to.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/lowerdepthsr4.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/lowerdepthsr2.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Gabin is Pepel, lifelong thief, lives in a shifty boarding house, likes his girlfriend&#8217;s sister. Girlfriend&#8217;s dad owns the place but doesn&#8217;t enjoy it one bit. Along comes Louis Jouvet as The Baron, or ex-Baron, as he&#8217;s fired from his post for unpaid gambling debts as soon as he&#8217;s introduced. Pepel met the Baron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[343,13,146],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1930s","tag-criterion","tag-jean-renoir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}