France,
1963, 108 min
Directed by:
Louis MalleCinematography:
Ghislain CloquetCast:
Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Jeanne Moreau, Alexandra Stewart, Yvonne Clech, Hubert Deschamps, Henri Serre, Micha Bayard, Alain Mottet, Jacques Sereys (more)Plots(1)
After garnering international acclaim for such seminal crowd-pleasers as The Lovers and Zazie dans le métro, Louis Malle gave his fans a shock with The Fire Within (Le feu follet), a penetrating study of individual and social inertia. Maurice Ronet (Elevator to the Gallows), in an implosive, haunted performance, plays Alain Leroy, a self-destructive writer who resolves to kill himself and spends the next twenty-four hours trying to reconnect with a host of wayward friends. (official distributor synopsis)
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