Almayer’s Folly
La folie Almayer (Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France)
By Eva-Lynn Jagoe | 12/20/2011 | CS49, From Cinema Scope Magazine, Spotlight
By Eva-Lynn Jagoe At the end of Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly, the title character, a benighted Dutch trader at a failed Malaysian outpost, is deserted by his beloved half-caste daughter Nina and determines to forget her before he dies. “He had a fixed idea that if he should not forget before he died he would…
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By cscope2 | 09/09/2011 | Cinema Scope Online, TIFF 2011
Arirang (Kim Ki Duk, South Korea)—Real to Reel This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Iran)—Masters By Mark Peranson An amateurishly shot “self-interrogation,” the Cannes Un Certain Regard-winning film Arirang is cannon fodder for the enemies of director Kim Ki Duk, and of those the director rightly claims there are many; there…
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