The Fire Within

The Fire Within

  • Director: Louis Malle
  • Writer: Pierre Drieu La Rochelle,Louis Malle
  • Countries of origin: France
  • Language: French
  • Release date: October 7, 1966
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1
  • Also known as: Das Irrlicht
  • "Le feu follet" is a 108-minute feature film directed by Louis Malle . The film starring Maurice Ronet , Léna Skerla , Yvonne Clech , Hubert Deschamps , Jean-Paul Moulinot, etc., was released in France on October 15, 1963.
    The film is adapted from the novel of the same name written by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle . It tells the story of Alan, a playboy who has just given up his alcohol addiction from a nursing home. Suicide with alcohol   .

    Details

    • Release date October 7, 1966
    • Filming locations Café de Flore - 172 boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris 6, Paris, France
    • Production companies Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF)

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    • By Timothy 2022-01-20 08:03:50

      Alai

      I committed suicide because you didn't love me, nor did I love you.
      Ronet is so beautiful in it.
      If you don't understand the era and social background of France, you can experience it, but you will lose a lot. However, Allai's loneliness, searching, and disappointment are still touching.
      Allais, after drinking at the dinner, there was only half of Allais on the back;
      Allais, sitting outside the cafe, looking at the sun, all the elegant and lively figures leaving the sight of...

    • By Athena 2022-01-20 08:03:50

      The self-closing of a man.

      I don't know where there are so many stars. I am not harsh by nature. I watch a movie and see someone I like. I am not stingy with being a "five-star general", ha ha.

      It is still Louis Mahler, but an early work. The first reason to fall into the plot is because of the protagonist Maurice Ronet's eyes, which is impossible to escape from the deep attraction.

      Aaron, who had just got rid of alcohol in the nursing home, re-entered society, but she had nothing. The American wife...

    • By Nicolette 2022-01-20 08:03:50

      Life is like a wildfire

      Slow, heavy, and the lens is beautiful.

      "Tomorrow I will commit suicide", and then I really committed suicide. Is it the last cry for help from the desperate?

      When I watched it, I always think of "Wild Strawberry" and "Four Hundred Strikes". They may be serious movies. There are many things to express, such as sculptures in various cultures that can be seen everywhere in the movie, and the relationship between Egypt, Japan, and Mesopotamia Kind of; for example, the...

    • By Erna 2022-01-20 08:03:50

      Absurd and abandoned struggle

      The pain of not being understood, the dilemma of communication, poor Alain.

      Recently, I read "The Myth of Sisyphus" according to the film list of the solo exhibition. I talked about the ridiculous feelings of all things in comparison after awakening, and the relationship between absurdity and suicide. (Absurdity: It can also be understood as the feeling that everything is meaningless)

      This feeling—at first you worked step by step in this world, suddenly one day you jumped out of...

    • By Johnnie 2022-01-20 08:03:50

      The people there have the sun in their hearts

      "Le Feu follet" was literally translated as "The Fire Within" when it was released in the United States, the fire within. In China, it became "Wizards". I prefer the English translation, "A Time to Live and a Time to Die", when I was born and when I died. The film's director, Louis Malle, likes to use a more literary way to tell relatively popular stories, taking the safest route, clear and fuzzy places must be explained, and dull places will not be too long. Of all Mahler's films, this one is...

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    • By Mariela 2023-09-03 15:52:22

      Channel 3 finished this talk show, which was followed by an unsightly talk show. It seemed that the last dinner scene was more violent and indifferent, thinking about shooting with a machine gun or killing myself with a single...

    • By Mervin 2023-07-27 06:25:34

      Mahler is the favorite among the New Wave group. If I make a film I want to do this kind of stuff. Last letter "I committed suicide because you didn't love me, because I didn't love you, we were estranged, only death can bring us close, I leave you, to give you indelible...

    • By Kitty 2023-07-17 01:55:52

      The ghostly streetscape danced on my arms, and I couldn't stop it, sending a dancing bullet to my chest—farewell to this decade of Fitzgerald's...

    • By Julian 2023-05-31 03:21:00

      Those who have not experienced it will regard everything as a moan. In the Egyptology madman, I saw myself persuading friends, in the man who "won't bring him down no matter how much pain he suffers", I saw myself in self-deception, and when the dinner chat came to an abrupt end, I saw myself seated everywhere. For a long time I didn't know when to fall asleep, and I didn't want to wake up, knowing that I was an empty shell, but wrapped the gun without a...

    • By Greyson 2023-05-11 14:04:19

      A man who is determined to die is tossing between former friends, their lives are different, but the flames in their hearts have been extinguished, he can't find a reason to be a man, he has no patience, because patience is just an excuse for mediocrity. He sorted out his belongings, shaved a shallow beard, even did not forget to wipe aftershave, pointed the muzzle at his heart, and injected the flame into the icy...

    Movie plot

    The writer Allen was sent to a health center in Versailles, France by his wife from New York to receive treatment for alcoholism. The only connection between them is that some acquaintance friends come to visit Allen to make sure that he can get rid of alcoholism as soon as possible. Allen's previous life was spent in sensuality. Alcohol and beauty are all of his life. But alcohol not only endangers his health, but also destroys his...
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    "Le feu follet" not only continues Louis Malle's consistent creative concept in spirit, but also inherits his consistent feature of "compressing time" in the handling of the story. Most of the plots take place in one or two days, and the emotional changes of the characters are emphasized. The characters in Mahler's films often have extraordinary qualities and have a romantic tendency. "Le feu follet" has an extremely profound...
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    Movie quotes

    • Alain Leroy: I have no power over them. I was handsome at 20. They still find me fun and nice. But it's not enough. I have no hold on them. And yet, it's only through women... that I've felt some hold on life.

    • Alain Leroy: Five minutes with her and l'd feel like an insect. l'd vanish into the woodwork.

    • Narrator: Once again the feeling had eluded him, like a snake between stones.