Film: The Lower Depths

Tickets: $12

Les bas-fonds, Jean Renoir, 1936, France, 90 minutes

In the last major Albatros production and one of the key films of the Popular Front, Jean Renoir continues his reinvention of theatrical adaptation, using Maxim Gorky’s classic play and a charismatic performance by Jean Gabin to create “a realistic poem on the loss of human dignity.”