About Almayer’s Folly
- Year Released:
- 2011
- Genres:
- Drama
- Metadata:
- Directed by Chantal Akerman
Almayer’s Folly (2011)
Chantal Akerman adapts Joseph Conrad’s debut
novel concerning a Dutch trader living in Malaysia,
transplanting the story from the 1890s to the 1950s.
This brings the weight of another 50 years of colonialism
and foreign intervention to bear on Conrad’s
tale, a story of cultural conflict, desire, and despair.
Having married the adopted Malay in order to obtain
an inheritance that has failed to materialize, Almayer
has become isolated and bitter, investing all his
emotional energy in his own beloved daughter, Nina.
Haunted by feelings of racial alienation and harboring
hatred towards her father, Nina has no intention
of providing him with comfort or companionship. In French, English,
and Khmer languages with English subtitles.
(35mm presentation)
