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The Fire Within (1963)

A self-destructive writer resolves to kill himself and spends the next twenty-four hours trying to reconnect with a host of wayward friends.

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Title	The Fire Within (1963)
Runtime	1 hr. 47 min.
Director	Louis Malle
Country	France
Studio	Criterion Collection
Genres	Drama
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.