Movie Description:
After garnering international acclaim for such seminal crowd-pleasers as The Lovers and Zazie dans le metro, Louis Malle gave his fans a shock withTHE FIRE WITHIN, a penetrating study of individual and social inertia. Maurice Ronet in an implosive, haunted performance, plays Alain Leroy, aself-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`sdarkest and most personal films.