Almayer's Folly is not friendly terrain to traverse; like some sinister version of Proust, it is a prolonged fever dream that ultimately yields madness.
Almayer's Folly(La Folie Almayer)
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Belgium, France · 2011
2h 7m
Director Chantal Akerman
Starring Stanislas Merhar, Marc Barbé, Aurora Marion, Zac Andrianasolo
Genre Drama
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A tale of a Dutch trader, Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for Nina—his beloved half-Malaysian daughter and raison d'être—collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice. Freely adapted from the novel by Joseph Conrad.
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Slant Magazine by Jesse Cataldo
Fervently passionate and formally meticulous, the latest stunning coup for a director who's made a career of repurposing archetypal storylines.
It is the richly evocative performances of Marion (aggressive yet enticing) and Merhar (wearing world-weariness like an aged suit) that cut deepest.
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One of the year's most hypnotic and fascinating films.
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