The Fire Within/Le Feu Follet (Louis Malle)

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Coming from Gaumont on November 4. Starring Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau, Hubert Deschamps, Bernard Noël, and Alexandra Stewart.

Le feu follet Blu-ray PRE-ORDER

After rising to international stardom with such seminal crowd-pleasers as The Lovers and Zazie dans le metro, 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. Unsparing in its portrait of Alain's inner turmoil and shot with remarkable clarity, The Fire Within is one of Malle's darkest and most personal films.

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