À la folie

Infobox Film
name = À la folie


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director = Diane Kurys
producer = Alexandre Arcady
writer = Diane Kurys
Antoine Lacomblez
narrator =
starring = Anne Parillaud
Béatrice Dalle
Patrick Aurignac
music = Michael Nyman
cinematography = Fabio Conversi
editing = Luc Barnier
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released = flagicon|France September 28, 1994
runtime = 98 min.
country = France
language = French
budget =
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imdb_id = 0111856

"À la folie" ("To Madness") (English: "Six Days, Six Nights") is a 1994 film by Diane Kurys with music by Michael Nyman.

Cast

* Anne Parillaud as Alice
* Béatrice Dalle as Elsa
* Patrick Aurignac as Franck

Plot

Two rival sisters, Alice and Elsa, have been apart for two years. Alice, a promising young artist, lives in an attic flat in Paris. Her lover Franck, a boxer, has just moved in with her. Problems for the happy couple ensue when Elsa, a bored housewife, suddenly appears unannounced at their door after leaving her cheating husband Thomas and their two children, and a menage-a-trois develops. Elsa immediately begins trying to dominate their lives. Alice wants the out-of-control Elsa, who disrupts their life by playing psychological games with them, to leave, but then suddenly changes her mind, unable to bring herself to throw Elsa out. To thank her, Elsa destroys her art studio, has sex with Franck, convinces him that Alice is unbalanced, and then ties Alice up in her apartment.

Music

Infobox Album
Name = à la folie
Type = Soundtrack
Longtype =
Artist = Michael Nyman


Cover size = 200
Caption = photography by Jean-Marie Leroy
design by Dave McKean
Released = September 16, 1994 (France)
March 20, 1995 (UK)
March 21, 1995 (USA)
Recorded = March 14, 1994, May 1994, CTS Studios, London
Genre = Soundtrack, Contemporary classical music, Minimalist music
Length = 49:15
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Label = Virgin Venture
Director =
Producer = Michael Nyman
Reviews =
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Chronology =
Last album = The Piano Concerto/MGV
1994
This album = À la folie
1994
Next album = Live
1994
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = 6 Days 6 Nights
Type = Soundtrack


Lower caption = UK/US cover (1995)

The music by Michael Nyman has been praised as one of his better works, and considered unusually buried in the sound mix of the film. The album is Nyman's 23rd release, and the fourteenth with the Michael Nyman Band. The American album became very difficult to come by; American Nyman fans attempting to special order the album only a few years later were often presented with copies of Randy Edelman's "Six Days Seven Nights", derived from distributors' fuzzy searches. In France, however, the album was promoted as "Michael Nyman Nouvel Album."

The score features yet another of Michael Nyman's waltzes. "Waltzing the Bird" is based on Nyman's early "Waltz in F," which appeared on "Michael Nyman", although it develops in a very different direction. "Love Theme" is a very loose reworking of material from the "String Quartet No. 3" with material from other themes written for the score of the film.

The only liner notes on the French release of the album are an uncredited synopsis of the film in French.

Track listing

#Solitude 1:36
#Broken Glass 4:58
#Sisters 1:42
#The Intruder 2:40
#Waltzing the Bird 3:16
#A New Beginning 1:22
#Stolen Memories 5:48
#À la Folie... 5:48
#The Streets of Paris 2:39
#Love Forever 1:19
#Love Theme 2:35
#Point of No Return 2:55
#Escape 3:37
#Broken Dreams 4:19
#Dark Fantasy 2:25
#Six Days, Six Nights 5:51

Personnel

Musicians from the Michael Nyman Band

*Beverley Davison - violin
*Ann Morfee - violin
*Marshall Marcus - violin
*Katherine Shave - violin
*Catherine Musker - viola
*Anthony Hinnigan - cello
*William Schofield - cello
*Christopher Laurence - bass
*Tim Amhurst - bass
*John Harle - soprano/alto saxophones
*David Roach - soprano/alto saxophones
*Andrew Findon - flute/piccolo/baritone saxophone
*Nigel Barr - Trombone/Tuba
*Steve Sidwell - trumpet/flugel/piccolo trumpet
*Marjorie Dunn - horn
*Martin Elliott - bass guitar
*Michael Nyman - piano

*music composed, arranged, conducted, and produced by Michael Nyman
*Published by Chester Music Ltd./Michael Nyman Ltd.

*Engineer: Michael J. Dutton
*Assistant Engineer: Dillon Gallagher
*Mixed at CTS Studios, London
*Edited at Transfermation and Abbey Road Studios, London

*Artist representative for Michael Nyman: Nigel Barr
*Design, illustration, and photography by Dave McKean @ Hourglass
*Photography from "6 Days 6 Nights" by Jean-Marie Leroy

External links

*imdb title|id=0111856|title=À la folie