Yömaja (1936)
21KYömaja (1936). 1h 35m | K-16
“Seeing Maxim Gorkyu0026#39;s play about the lowest level of society is an ultra- depressing depressing experience. Everyone is miserable and wretched and the entire production is filled with people who are complete messes. However, in this movie version, director Jean Renoir manages to make the film watchable and quite watchable! How does he do this? Well, he did a great job directed, got some wonderful performances AND used a script that changed the original play–giving it a hopeful and relatively happy ending!! While I usually would never want to see this (such as how they gave happy endings in u0026quot;The Hairy Apeu0026quot; and the recent version of u0026quot;The Scarlet Letteru0026quot;), in this it was a good thing! Giving the audience something to hope for makes this well worth seeing–not an exercise in masochism! All in all, extremely well made and the best version of the Gorky story I have seen.”
