Le feu follet (1963)
(A Time to Live and a Time to Die)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 107m
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Jeanne Moreau
Synopsis:
The last day in the life of an ex-alcoholic playboy who has never quite grown up. He takes a day out from the detox. clinic, to which he has clung for security, and visits all his old friends in Paris, but nothing is as it used to be.
Review:
Moving psychological study which carries conviction without being too depressing. The hero's malaise, based on a need to embrace other human beings but a corresponding clumsiness and, it is suggested, sexual impotence leads ultimately to suicide, since being idle he has nothing to live for. The film's lethargic mood, enhanced by Satie passages, and its Parisian scenes of café life are typical of the early work of this director.
(A Time to Live and a Time to Die)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 107m
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Jeanne Moreau
Synopsis:
The last day in the life of an ex-alcoholic playboy who has never quite grown up. He takes a day out from the detox. clinic, to which he has clung for security, and visits all his old friends in Paris, but nothing is as it used to be.
Review:
Moving psychological study which carries conviction without being too depressing. The hero's malaise, based on a need to embrace other human beings but a corresponding clumsiness and, it is suggested, sexual impotence leads ultimately to suicide, since being idle he has nothing to live for. The film's lethargic mood, enhanced by Satie passages, and its Parisian scenes of café life are typical of the early work of this director.
(A Time to Live and a Time to Die)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 107m
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Jeanne Moreau
Synopsis:
The last day in the life of an ex-alcoholic playboy who has never quite grown up. He takes a day out from the detox. clinic, to which he has clung for security, and visits all his old friends in Paris, but nothing is as it used to be.
Review:
Moving psychological study which carries conviction without being too depressing. The hero's malaise, based on a need to embrace other human beings but a corresponding clumsiness and, it is suggested, sexual impotence leads ultimately to suicide, since being idle he has nothing to live for. The film's lethargic mood, enhanced by Satie passages, and its Parisian scenes of café life are typical of the early work of this director.