| Release | May 13, 2008 |
| Video |
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Anamorphic - Enhanced for Widescreen TVs. |
| Audio |
French: Dolby Digital 1.0 |
| Subtitles | English |
| Studio | Criterion/Voyager |
| Year | 1963 |
| Genre | Drama |
- Remastered Audio and Video (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 Schlondorff
- Jusqu'au 23 Juillet, a 2005 documentary short about Pierre Drieu la Rochelle's novel Le feu follet and dadaist writer Jacques Rigaut (the inspiration for the main character), 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 historian Peter Cowie
After rising to international stardom with such seminal crowd-pleasers as The Lovers and Zazie dans le metro, director Louis Malle gave his fans a shock with THE FIRE WITHIN (France - 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.
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.
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Maurice RonetLena SkerlaJeanne MoreauAlexandra StewartYvonne ClechHubert DeschampsJean-Paul MoulinotPierre MoncorbierHenri SerreJacques SereysRomain BouteilleAlain Mottet"Fire Within, The: The Criterion Collection"
Written byLouis Malleproduced byAlain Queffelean
directed byLouis Malle
Production Year: 1963
Written byLouis Malleproduced byAlain Queffelean
directed byLouis Malle
Production Year: 1963
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