The Fire Within

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The Fire Within ★★★ Le Feu Follet; Fuoco Fatuo 1964

Ronet plays an alcoholic writer recently released from a sanitorium after a breakdown. Believing his life will only continue its downward spiral, he pays a final visit to friends and calmly plots his suicide. Malle clearly and pitilessly describes a man beyond despair. Based on a novel by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, which itself fictionalized the suicide of writer Jacques Rigaut. In French with English subtitles. 104m/B VHS . FR Bernard Noel, Jeanne Moreau, Alexandra Stewart, Henri Serre, Maurice Ronet, Lena Skerla, Yvonne Clech, Hubert Deschamps, JeanPaul Moulinot; D: Louis Malle; W: Louis Malle; C: Ghislan Cloquet.

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