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Le Feu Follet (1963)

Drama | 108 minutes
3,71 129 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 108 minuten

Alternative titles: The Fire Within / Will o' the Wisp / A Time to Live and a Time to Die

Country: France / Italy

Directed by: Louis Malle

Stars: Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla and Pierre Moncorbier

IMDb score: 7,8 (10.674)

Releasedate: 15 October 1963

Le Feu Follet plot

Alain Leroy (Ronet) is a characteristic alcoholic who has decided to commit suicide. Before the scheduled date, he visits old friends who cannot help him.

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Mademoiselle Farnoux

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Montorsi

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Special film.

It's nice to see how alienated the protagonist is from his environment, while his environment tries to embrace him, but does so in the same way as before.

Maybe a bit too slow, but I think I'm still growing. A really beautiful film with a painful ending.

3.5*

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Film Pegasus (moderator films)

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For me it is a somewhat superficial film about a man who struggles with alcoholism and depression and hopes for a little light in his familiar Paris with his friends and acquaintances. While I usually appreciate this, things don't go so well here with the dialogues that approach the whole thing philosophically or artistically rather than humanly. But it will gradually improve. And the images are very nicely done with appropriate music. So I have some mixed feelings about this film, perhaps I will like it better on a later rewatch.

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Zandkuiken

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In itself it is a film that I like (the comparable Oslo, 31 August is in my personal top 10), and I thought it was a nice picture at times, but it still remains stuck somewhere between 3 and 3.5*.

Thematically I thought it was an interesting film, the protagonist is a charismatic guy, but I still didn't find the execution entirely satisfactory. Le Feu Follet is very slow at times, and Malle sometimes lost me in the second half.

What remains is the beautiful image of Paris, the beautiful music of Satie and the style of Maurice Ronet.

By the way, it's nice to see the film crew walking along with Ronet in the reflection of the shop windows.

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