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In his devastating record, Darkness Visible: A Story of Madness, author William Styron recalls wandering the streets of Paris while suffering from suicidal depression, shimmering that he may never experience the city again. Louis Malle explores this same psychological wilderness in his 1963 film, The Fire Within (Le feu follet) . The film follows Malle’s films, The Lovers (Les Amants) (1958), Zazie in the Metro (Zazie dans le métro) (1960), and A Very Private Affair (Vie privée) (1962) . Based on the original by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Maurice Ronet (Elevator to the Gallows) gives a shimmering performance as Alain Leroy, an alcoholic writer at a rest home in Versailles. Uncomfortable and disillusioned with his life, Alain decides to commit suicide after first visiting his bourgeois friends in Paris one last time, where within 24 hours, and after finishing Scott Fitzgerald’s Babylon Revisited, he is even more resolved to kill his life. (The are many parallels between the self-destructive lives of Alain Leroy and Fitzgerald. Both are divorced, alcoholic writers living in Paris.) It is deeply affecting to sight Alain drinking at the Café de Flore, luminous that he is contemplating suicide, and colorful that he may never experience Paris again. The Fire Within is ultimately a unlit peer in despair and self-destruction, reminiscent in many ways of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s best work. Jeanne Moreau also stars as dazzling Alexandra Stewart.
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The Criterion edition of The Fire Within features a newly restored digital transfer; interviews with director Louis Malle and actor Maurice Ronet; “Malle’s Fire Within,” a 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 current Le feu follet, by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, featuring actor Mathieu Amalric, writer Didier Daeninckx, and Cannes festival curator Pierre-Henri Deleau; and a booklet featuring modern essays by critic Michel Ciment and film historian Peter Cowie. Highly recommended.
G. Merritt
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Very inspiring film well worth watching several times. Not as depressing as it sounds, it is about an ex-alcoholic, tired of life and/or unable to connect with other humans, visiting the friends who he primitive to party with for a last time. Aesthetic shots, bewitching characters, salubrious acting (also, Jeanne Moreau appears for a few minutes), Paris in the summer. All to the sound of Satie’s Gymnopedie…
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