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The Fire Within (Le feu follet) [DVD]

The Fire Within (Le feu follet) [DVD]

While Louis Malle is often associated with the French New Wave, largely because of the young age at which he made his first feature (he was in his early 20s) and the time period when he started making films (the late 1950s), he was always just outside that movement. Unlike Truffaut, G ... ...

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