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...beginning of The Lower Depths states that before the film was made, Maxim Gorki approved approved the adaptation. Unfortunately for Gorki he praiseworthy aspects of the picture are not 3 result of his lines, but of Jean Renoir's direction and the acting of Louis Jouvet and Jean Gabin...
Jouvet as the ruined Baron and Gabin as Pepel, the reformed their, give the only non-stereotyped portrayals, although Vladimir Sokoloff makes the landlord a suitably despicable individual...
...ners of this year's competition. Grand prize winner: an Italian-British production (in English) of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Four second prize winners: On the Waterfront (U.S.), The Street (Italy), The Seven Samurai and Functionary Sun-sho (both Japan). Best actor: France's Jean Gabin (for his work in L'Air de Paris and Touchez Pas au Grisbi). "Special" prize: MGM's Executive Suite. On the Waterfront, starring Marlon Brando, walked off with two additional prizes: one from the Italian Motion Picture Journalists Association, the other from the International Catholic Film Office...
...country to attend the first Communion of Madame's little niece. The country idyl is charmingly done, with the girls on their best behavior, the villagers impressed by the glamorous visitors from the city, and Madame Tellier (Madeleine Renaud) exhibiting a happy mixture of practicality and sentiment. Jean Gabin, as a shrewd but lovelorn peasant, and Danielle Darrieux, who cries with as much facility as she loves, keeps things going forward. But. like most weekends in the country, this one tends to drag a little on Sunday afternoon...
...melodrama of this sort, Gabin's realistic touches provide an ironic contrast to Pepe's fanciful vision of freedom. The depraved gangster, trapped by both police and conscience, is forced to hide in the friendly surroundings of the native quarter. Ultimately his love for freedom and for the jeweled Gaby draws him from the safety of the Casbah to the dangers of the city. But even Pepe's love is evil, for Gaby is the mistress of another man. Gabin plays the part frankly and sadistically, yet he ended on a note of pathos, emotional enough for melodrama, and ironic...