The Fire Within [Le feu follet]

Paris: Nouvelles editions de films, 1963. Vintage Program for the international release of the 1963 film, here under the alternate title "The Will-O-The-Whisp," a perhaps more literal translation of the original French title "Le feu follet." The film would be released as "The Fire Within" in the US and "A Time to Live and a Time to Die" in the UK.

Based on the 1963 novel, "Le feu follet suivi de adieu a Gonzague" by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. An ambitious Malle project, using only solo piano music by Erik Satie for its score, about an increasingly isolated man quietly fighting the urge to take his own life.

8 x 10.5 inches, Self-wrappers, perfect-bound, 17 pages, on medium white stock with an untitled, solid green spine; in original printed envelope (slightly larger), single flap, with the French title ("Le feu follet") printed in green in large letters at the lower margin of the front panel. Program Near Fine, envelope Very Good plus with light soil at the edges.

[Book #118366]