Fire Within "mournful, shattering"
In a New York Times "Summer DVDs" special, Stephanie Zacharek writes on the May title The Fire Within: "If it's possible to make an elegant movie about suicidal depression, Louis Malle did it with his 1963 The Fire Within... Scene by scene [Maurice] Ronet's performance is so delicately balanced that even when you know where the movie is headed, nothing can prepare you for the shattering near-silence of the final moment, one of the most mournful endpapers in the movies."
