CRITERION COLLECTION: FIRE WITHIN

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• Release Year: 1963
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: 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.
• Cast: Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Yvonne Clech, Hubert Deschamps, Jean-Paul Moulinot, Mona Dol, Pierre Moncorbier, René Dupuy, Bernard Tiphaine, Bernard Noël, Ursula Kubler, Jeanne Moreau, Alain Mottet, François Gragnon, Romain Bouteille, Jacques Sereys, Alexandra Stewart, Claude Deschamps, Tony Taffin, Henri Serre, Madeleine Declercq, Claude Deleusse, Darling Légitimus, Michèle Mahaut, Vera Valdez, Louis Malle, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
• Director: Louis Malle
• Runtime: 1:48
• Company: The Criterion Collection, Nouvelles Éditions de Films
• Media Format: Movie