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FRANCE · 1963
Le Feu Follet
French New Wave
depression and mental illness
suicide and existential despair
alienation and isolation
friendship and human connection
addiction and recovery
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Synopsis
Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living.
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Bresson is one of those filmmakers who, when you look back, so many people tried to take from him. You see it in early Malle films like Le Feu Follet... People wanted to appropriate that style and that rigor, that self-denial. And Bresson had a certain puritanical attitude, and that speaks to my roots.
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