The Fire Within
The Fire Within
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1h 48m
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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Louis Malle on THE FIRE WITHIN
In September 1994 Louis Malle was interviewed for German television, by journalist Angelika Wittlich, about his career in cinema. The interview, which took place in his office in Paris, would be one of his last—he passed away on November 23, 1995. Presented here is an excerpt concerning THE FIRE ...
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“Portrait d’acteur”: Maurice Ronet, 1966
Maurice Ronet had recently directed his first film, LE VOLEUR DE TIBIDABO (1964), when he was interviewed about his film acting for the series “Portrait d’acteur.” That interview, excerpted here, was directed by Charles Chaboud and originally aired on September 3, 1966.
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Malle’s Fire Within
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