#Almayer's Folly

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La Folie Almayer (2011), dir. Chantal Akerman

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Stanislas Merhar in Almayer's Folly (Chantal Akerman, 2011) Cast: Stanislas Merhar, Marc Barbé, Aurora Marion, Zac Andrianasolo, Sakhna Oum, Solida Chan. Screenplay: Chantal Akerman, Henry Bean, Nicole Brenez,  based on a novel by Joseph Conrad. Cinematography: Rémon Fromont. Production design: Patrick Dechesne. Film editing: Claire Atherton Lots of movies -- think of Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950) and Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 2014), for example -- begin with an incident and then flash back for the rest of the movie to explain it. So Chantal Akerman's Almayer's Folly begins with the camera following a Malaysian man into a nightclub where another man is lip-synching to Dean Martin's version of the song "Sway" as a group of women dances behind him. Suddenly the man who entered the club is on stage stabbing the lip-syncher. The music breaks off and all of the dancers flee the stage except one, who continues to perform the hula-like hand movements as if nothing had happened. We hear a voice call out, "Nina! Nina!" but she continues in her trance-like state for a while until she stops and begins to sing Mozart's setting of "Ave Verum Corpus" as the camera holds on her in closeup. The movie then flashes back to reveal that Nina (Aurora Marion) is the daughter of the European Almayer (Stanislas Merhar) and a Malaysian woman, Zahira (Sakhna Oum). Almayer has come to Malaysia in search of his fortune -- he has heard of a gold mine ripe for the taking. Zahira and Nina live with him in a house by the river until one day his fellow European fortune-hunter, Captain Lingard (Marc Barbé), arrives to take Nina to the city to be educated: Almayer wants her to have the benefits and privileges of a European lady. Though Zahira and Nina flee into the jungle, Almayer and Lingard capture the girl. Nina is intensely unhappy at the school, scorned by the European girls, and when Lingard, who has been paying her tuition for Almayer, dies, she is expelled. She wanders the streets of the unnamed Malaysian city (the movie was actually filmed in Cambodia) and finally returns to Almayer's home. There she's seduced by Daïn (Zac Andrianasolo), a shady young man who is supposedly helping Almayer find his fortune. Almayer recognizes his defeat and allows Nina and Daïn to leave together. Unlike Wilder and the Coens, Akerman doesn't return to the opening scene at  the film's end, but instead leaves us with two of her characteristic long takes: The first shows Almayer, Nina, and Daïn arriving at a sandbar where the river meets the sea to await the arrival of the boat that will take the two young people away; the camera lingers in a long shot as the boat arrives and Nina and Daïn swim out to it, then Almayer and his servant, Chen (Solida Chan), push off into the river for their return home. The second long take is a closeup of the haggard, obviously very ill Almayer as he sits brooding in his decaying home, with Chen standing out of focus in the background. At the beginning of this take, Almayer says, "Tomorrow, I would have forgotten," a sentence that he repeats at the end after we watch the sun play across his face -- moving much more swiftly than it would in actuality -- and he talks about how the sun is cold and the river is black. By now, we have realized that the lip-syncher was Daïn and that Chen was his assassin. As for Almayer, we can only assume that he has died. Almayer's Folly, which Akerman loosely adapted from the early Joseph Conrad novel, is clearly a fable about the tragedy of colonialism, but she's not intent on laboring that topic. It's as much an attempt to prod the viewer into contemplating the mystery of character and identity as her more celebrated Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975) was, and by using less radical variations on the same techniques -- extended takes, minimized action -- she used in that film. Akerman developed a compelling and identifiable style, but there is a point at which style becomes mannerism. (We all want to be thought "stylish," and none of us want to be thought "mannered.") I think Almayer's Folly nears that point but doesn't fully reach it, largely because of the compelling performance of Merhar as Almayer, and because of Akerman's use of the setting, with the help of Rémon Fromont's cinematography and Claire Atheron's editing. She also makes fine ironic use of the Dean Martin song and the Mozart hymn, as well as the only non-diegetic music in the film, interludes filled with the erotic longing of Wagner's Prelude to Tristan and Isolde.

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Random PNGs, part 62

(Sources: 1. 19th century bronze alligator via Artcurial, 2. ‘Almayer’s folly’ by Rene Magritte, 3. ‘Invocation I’ by Theodore Roszak in 1947, 4. Kore statue from Tell Asmar c. 2700 BCE, 5. ‘Looking In’ by Leonora Carrington, 6. Dendritic Rhyolite book by Suze Woolf, 7. Bat brooch by Askew London c. 1980s via 1stdibs, 8. Black leopard by Vasily Vatagin 1884-1969, 9. ‘The Stone Eye: I Saw’ by Tatsuo Ikeda 1965.)

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Paralelos entre quadros de Remedios Varo e René Magritte

. jardim do amor x  príncipe encantado 

. insônia x a meditação

. os amantes x os amantes

. natureza morta ganhando vida x senso comum

. ícone x torre de Almayer 

Parallels between Remedios Varo’s paintings and René Magritte’s

. garden of love x prince charming

. trouble sleeping x the meditation

. the lovers x common sense

. icon x Almayer’s folly

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hi hello I did something inspired by Almayer’s folly by Rene Magritte for my final project for 3D class

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Almayer's Folly, Chantal Akerman (2011)

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#i may watch them all between tonight and tomorrow anyways lmao

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Almayer's folly

René Magritte

Titulo original: La folie almayer

Fecha: 1951; Brussels, Belgium

Estilo: Surrealismo

Perìodo: Mature Period

Género: pintura simbólica

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Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River

By Joseph Conrad

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Almayer's Folly (2011)

Almayer's Folly by #ChantalAkerman, "If only the film was as commanding as it is stunning in its pictorial magnificence",

CHANTAL AKERMAN Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB.5 Original Title: La folie Almayer Belgium/France, 2011. Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Artemis Productions, Belgacom, Canal+, Centre National du Cinema et de L’Image Animee, Cine+, Liaison Cinématographique, Paradise Film, Radio Television Belge Francophone, Tax Shelter Film Funding, Tax Shelter du…

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I love Chantal Akerman 😭😭😭😭 Queen of being good at all genre of movies.

#very different coming of age than almayer's folly

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“Almayer's Folly“ (2011) by Chantal Akerman

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Heart of Darkness / Almayer’s Folly / The Lagoon, Joseph Conrad FYI - this is 1 of 21 vintage, miniature paperback classics that comprise our current giveaway.

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"I want the spectator to have a physical experience, for him or her to feel time. Films are generally made to literally and metaphorically pass the time. But I want you to experience the time of a character."

On the 68th anniversary of her birth, the incomparable Chantal Akerman and nine of her radical masterworks.

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Almayer’s Folly | Chantal Akerman | 2011

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Chantal Akerman

- Almayer's Folly / La Folie Almayer

(2011)

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