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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?
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.
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.
British cinema excels in comedy, from the genius of Will Hay to the camp lunacy of the Carry Ons. Read more... An in-depth review of the film Le Feu follet (1963), aka The Fire Within, directed by Louis Malle, featuring Maurice Ronet, Lena Skerla, Yvonne Clech.
Synopsis. Although his alcoholism has been treated, Alain still feels he is deeply unwell and does not feel he can leave the detoxification clinic once and for all. His wife, living in New York, continues to pay for his treatment, but no longer contacts him directly.
An alcoholic French intellectual (Maurice Ronet) sets a date to die, then shoots himself.
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