After this run of deeply ruminative, small - scale works, one last major film was still to come; Akerman's
final narrative feature film, La folie Almayer (Almayer's Folly, 2011), based on the 1895 novel by Joseph Conrad.
The fractured identity and Hollywood - as - exploitive - nightmare - factory themes were pushed even further in Inland Empire (2006), Lynch's
final narrative feature film to date, as much as it can be regarded as a narrative film.