Fire Within, the (Le Feu Follet) (DVD)

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After garnering international acclaim for 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 fo llet), 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. Show more