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Almayer's Folly

La Folie Almayer

2011

In a remote corner of Malaysia, a European trader obsessed with a fabled treasure to secure his mixed-race daughter's future watches his dreams curdle into ruin and resentment. Chantal Akerman's languid, haunting adaptation of Conrad.

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