Sentences with word «folie»

Much ink has been spilled on Jacques Derrida's passionate exchange with Michel Foucault around the latter's publication of Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique (Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason) in 1961.

Gosling's LOST RIVER a first - rate folie de grandeur.

The romance between Agnes (Ashley Judd) and Peter (Michael Shannon) blossoms by way of folie à deux, as she gradually buys into his delusions.

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.

There's not much about the cruelty, the exploitativeness, and the destructive folie à deux of Reynolds Woodcock and Alma Elson's bad romance that Anderson doesn't lay right out there on the screen, with a psychological acuity worthy of Hitchcock and a cinematographic fluidity reminiscent of Max Ophüls.

Candy is a grim little fable of folie à deux, impeccably acted — especially by the ever more impressive Ledger.

A terrible week with evidence of religious exceptionalism, stupidity, incompetence, lying, dumping responsibility at every level including the highest, and folie de grandeur.

«Whiplash» impressed me with its tale of folie à deux and percussive magic, as did «Under the Skin» with its stunning production design and fascinating gender - reversal experiment.

While Americans are wistfully reciting, «He loves me, he loves me not,» while picking petals off of flowers, the French are saying, «Il m» aime un peu, beaucoup, passionnément, à la folie, pas du tout, «or «He loves me a little, a lot, passionately, madly, not at all.»

It's like a folie a trois: the mom and the two midwives.

Appointing a commission to reinvent parliament is a folie de grandeur.

Kawakubo's speculations on camp led to some fantastic experiments in glitter and folie but they were ultimately a lot less compelling than what she has delivered in the recent past.

The movie centers on a folie à deux — yet one that, at first, doesn't seem so folle.

What Stone has delivered instead is no folie de grandeur, but rather the last thing one would have expected from him: an honorable failure.

Even more fascinating than this odd dyad of blood relations is the folie à deux between Reynolds and the young woman who becomes his latest inamorata and inspiration, Alma (Vicky Krieps), a waitress at a country inn who takes the couturier's gluttonous breakfast order.

The real thing: Isabelle Huppert does another conjuring act in Catherine Breillat's drama about her folie a deux with a con man

Two outsiders in a close - knit community, Moll and Pascal are quick to set themselves up together against the world, but there's always a creeping sense that their folie à deux can't last forever.

Though the movie delves into Crane's two marriages (the wives are well played by Rita Wilson and Maria Bello), this is really the story of a folie a deux, as the two swingers — the star and the sycophant — trade on Crane's celebrity in their tireless pursuit of orgasms.

The title «folie» refers to a French term for a formally thought through, but useless building in garden architecture.

Royal weddings bring with them fanfares, fascinators, and fol - de-rol (folie de roi?)

Well, the content's gone, replaced with a curious mix of advertising and ravings — a folie á deux, if you will: