The Fire Within - Criterion Collection
starring: Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau, Hubert Deschamps, Mona Dol, René Dupré
directed by: Louis Malle
directed by: Louis Malle
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0715515029520
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Criterion Collection
Manufacturer: Criterion Collection
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion Collection
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 40265
Studio: Criterion Collection
Theatrical Release Date: 1963
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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.
Special Features
* - New, restored high-definition digital transfer
* - Archival interviews with director Louis Malle and actor Maurice Ronet
* - Malle's Fire Within, a new video program featuring interviews with actor Alexandra Stewart and filmmakers Philippe Collin and Volker Schlöndorff
* - Jusqu'au 23 Juillet, a 2005 documentary short about the film and its source novel Le feu follet, by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, featuring actor Mathieu Amalric, writer Didier Daeninckx, and Cannes festival curator Pierre-Henri Deleau
* - New and improved English subtitle translation
* - PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by critic Michel Ciment and film historian Peter Cowie
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- French film scores!Even though apparently aged, black and white, and treatment, this film packs a wallop. Timeless themes ... Read More
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- MasterpieceDisturbing story about a man approaching 30 who is hospitalized in mental institution. What seems to be ... Read More
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- SpleenVery enchanting film well worth watching several times. Not as depressing as it sounds, it is about an ex ... Read More
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- Criterion does it againWhat a great movie and a great job by Criterion folks. If you're into 60's French cinema, and Louis Malle ... Read More
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- A look at a suicidal personThis review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film.
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