The Fire Within (1963) - (The Criterion Collection - #430) [DVD9] [2008]

After garnering international acclaim for such seminal crowd-pleasers as The Lovers and Zazie dans le métro, Louis Malle gave his fans a shock with The Fire Within (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.











MOVIE:
DIRECTOR: Louis Malle
COUNTRY: France
YEAR: 1963

Cast
Maurice Ronet
Léna Skerla
Yvonne Clech
Hubert Deschamps
Jean-Paul Moulinot
Mona Dol
Pierre Moncorbier
René Dupuy
Bernard Tiphaine


Credits
Director: Louis Malle
Screenplay: Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (novel), Louis Malle (adaptation) uncredited
Cinematography: Ghislain Cloquet
Production Design: Bernard Evein
Sound: Guy Villette, Jean Nény
Editing: Suzanne Baron
Original Music: Erik Satie


DVD:
DVD RELEASE: May 13, 2008
STUDIO: Criterion
CATALOG: 430
SYSTEM: NTSC
SCREEN: 1.66:1
COLOR: Black and White
AUDIO: Spanish Dolby Digital Mono
SUBTITLES: English
RUNTIME (MOVIE): 108 minutes

EXTRACTION:
ENGINE: DVD Fab + DVD Shrink
DVD: 1 Full Dual-Layer DVD
FILE EXTENSION: VIDEO_TS Folder
FILE SIZE: 7.5 GBs

Disc Features

* 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 Schlöndorff
* Jusqu’au 23 Juillet, a 2005 documentary short about the film and its source novel Le feu follet, by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, 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 film historian Peter Cowie