Maurice Ronet
Alain Leroy
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The Fire Within (French: Le Feu follet [lə fø fɔlɛ], lit. "The Manic Fire" or "Will-O'-the-Wisp") is a 1963 drama film written and directed by Louis Malle. It is based on the 1931 novel Will O' the Wisp by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, which was inspired by the life of poet Jacques Rigaut.
The Fire Within: Directed by Louis Malle. With Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Yvonne Clech, Hubert Deschamps. Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living. Will this help him?
- (10K)
- Drama
- Louis Malle
- 1966-10-07
Louis Malle has done that brilliantly in "The Fire Within," which isn't exactly based on Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited" but is certainly inspired by it. Indeed, Malle's hero reads the Fitzgerald story in the days before his suicide, finishing the last page just before he pulls the trigger.
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The Fire Within. An alcoholic French intellectual (Maurice Ronet) sets a date to die, then shoots himself.
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- Maurice Ronet
- Louis Malle
- Arco Films
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.
- Alain Leroy
The Fire Within is an intriguing film from Louis Malle and one that kept his critics up nights trying to determine a pattern in his career. Malle had won a prestigious prize at Cannes for his first feature, a documentary on Jacques Cousteau.
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft. Mt. Unzen, Kyushu, Japan. At 3:18pm, on June 3rd 1991, a pyroclastic flow -- a cloud of superheated gases and particles -- descended...
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- Biography, Documentary
