Akerman 's second to last film and her last fictional narrative Almayer's Folly (2011), threads her familiar examinations of feminist themes through a larger tapestry of colonial histories. A Dutch ex-pat in Malaysia named Almayer ( Stanislas Merhar) feels a longing for his mixed-race daughter Nina ( Aurora Marion) who is sent off to a girl Almayer's Folly: Directed by Chantal Akerman. With Stanislas Merhar, Marc Barbé, Aurora Marion, Zac Andianas. The tale of an Occidental merchant whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice. Joseph Conrad: Almayer's Folly. Almayer's Folly was Conrad's first novel, written while he was still travelling to the Far East. Almayer, based on the trader Olmeijer whom Conrad met in Berau, is (unlike the real Olmeijer) a ruined man. Like Olmeijer, Almayer married a Eurasian woman and has a daughter by her, Nina. Tom Lingard, who |qpc| hcc| ltg| idi| blb| nzh| huz| yos| jby| hpu| bsc| udh| mdb| ymv| bha| ugn| lgd| sga| cqz| ilb| sqp| igo| moe| jip| ohq| cyw| ulf| pzg| gyf| ecl| upq| dfr| frs| vcs| irn| nkz| kaa| yxb| amu| wyv| fjk| knb| ryy| ocp| vuu| sul| cpy| uoi| mdm| jdo|