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The Fire Within - Criterion Collection
»rank: 28327
0ur opinion: :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 ...
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Lucrezia Borgia
»rank: 108224
0ur opinion:Description:Directed by silent film pioneer Abel Gance, 'Lucrezia Borgia' (1935, 93 min.) blazes onto the screen with the story of one of history's most ruthlessly ambitious families. With the same high style and exquisite attention to detail that Gance demonstrated so breathtakingly in 'Napoleon,' 'Lucrezia Borgia' has been called an exuberant display of Gance's extensive filmmaking prowess. Also included are two rarely seen shorter silent films directed by Gance: 'Au Secours!' (1923, 31 min.) uses experimental editing and photography to illustrate a man's adventures in ...
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