Directed by Louis Malle • 1963 • France
Starring Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Jeanne Moreau
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. 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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Spirits of the Dead
Directed by Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, and Roger Vadim • 1968 • France, Italy
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PHANTOM INDIA: Episode 1
“The Impossible Camera”
Directed by Louis Malle • 1969 • FranceLouis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking PHANTOM INDIA the most personal film of his career. This extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of discov...
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PHANTOM INDIA: Episode 2
“Things Seen in Madras”
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