The Fire Within (1963) ( Le Feu follet ) ( A Time to Live and a Time to Die )

The Fire Within (1963) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Le Feu follet
Alternate Title: A Time to Live and a Time to Die
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
108 min + 44 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1963 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Louis Malle

Written By:
Louis Malle
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

Actors:
Maurice Ronet ..... Alain Leroy
Léna Skerla ..... Lydia
Yvonne Clech ..... Mademoiselle Farnoux
Hubert Deschamps ..... D'Averseau
Jean-Paul Moulinot ..... Dr. La Barbinais
Mona Dol ..... Madame La Barbinais
Pierre Moncorbier ..... Moraine
René Dupuy ..... Charlie (as René Dupuis)
Bernard Tiphaine ..... Milou
Bernard Noël ..... Dubourg
Ursula Kubler ..... Fanny
Jeanne Moreau ..... Eva
Alain Mottet ..... Urcel
François Gragnon ..... François Minville
Romain Bouteille ..... Jerome Minville

Synopsis:

Maurice Ronet plays an alcoholic writer, Alain Leroy, who is on the verge of suicide (his character is based on writer Jacques Rigaut, who killed himself in 1929). The psychiatrist assigned to Leroy is no help, advising his patient to seek a reconciliation with his wife, who is still smarting from Leroy's recent liaison with Lydia (Lena Skerla). Still obsessed with the notion of taking his own life, Leroy plans to stage his demise on July 23. A last-ditch effort to jolly himself out of his doldrums fails, and Leroy, with a picture of Marilyn Monroe at his side, snuffs himself out. Though a case study of a man victimized by his own isolationism, The Fire Within has some surprising random optimistic moments. The French title for The Fire Within is Le Feu Follet, which was also the title of the novel by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (another suicide!) from which this film was adapted.

Life has become unbearably painful for Alain who is in his early 30s. He once used alcohol to dull the pain. His estranged wife in New York has paid for a cure at a clinic in Versailles and sends an emissary, one of the many woman he has known, to see how Alain is. She sees only the surface as does his doctor, who says it's time for Alain to leave the clinic. He goes to Paris the next morning and has lunch with old friends, a rendezvous in a cafe and is invited to a dinner party. Will Alain make a connection that will change his mind about ending it all?

The Parisian Alain Leroy has been detoxified in a clinic in Versailles from his drinking problem. His estranged wife Dorothy lives in New York and Alain has a brief love affair with her friend Lydia, who has to return to New York. The needy and depressed Alain is declared healed by his doctor, but he has no motivation to continue to live. He travels to Paris and meets his old friends, acquaintances and lovers trying to find a reason to live.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 04 December, 2015.

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