The Fire Within

Infobox Film
name = The Fire Within


caption = DVD Cover
director = Louis Malle
producer =
writer = Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (novel)
Louis Malle
starring = Maurice Ronet
Jeanne Moreau
Alexandra Stewart
music = Erik Satie
cinematography = Ghislain Cloquet
editing = Suzanne Baron
distributor = Gibraltar Productions
Governor Films Inc.
released = flagicon|France 15 October 1963
flagicon|USA 17 February 1964
runtime = 108 min.
country = Italy
France
awards =
language = French
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id = 1:17394
imdb_id = 0057058

"The Fire Within" (French: "Le feu follet") is a 1963 French film directed by Louis Malle. It is based on the novel of the same name by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. The film stars Maurice Ronet as Alain Leroy, a recovering alcoholic at a rehabilitation clinic in Versailles who suffers from depression. He decides to end his life, but first decides to visit his friends in Paris one last time, in an attempt at finding a reason to continue living. The movie also stars Jeanne Moreau - who had previously worked with Ronet and Malle in "Elevator to the Gallows" - as well as Alexandra Stewart, Bernard Noel, Lena Skerla, Hubert Deschamps and Yvonne Clech. The score features the music of Erik Satie.

In his "2006 Movie Guide", Leonard Maltin gives the film 3.5 stars (out of four) and calls it "probably Malle's best early film." ["Leonard Maltin's 2006 Movie Guide," New York: Signet.]

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*imdb title|id=0057058|title=The Fire Within
* [http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_Le_feu_follet_rev.html The Fire Within] , review @ filmsdefrance.com

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title=Special Jury Prize, Venice
years=1963
tied with "Vstuplijenije"
before="Vivre sa vie"
after="The Gospel According to St. Matthew"
tied with "Hamlet"