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à la folie
à la folie
	photography by Jean-Marie Leroy; design by Dave McKean
Soundtrack album by Michael Nyman
Released	16 September 1994 (France); 20 March 1995 (UK); 21 March 1995 (United States)
Recorded	14 March 1994, May 1994, CTS Studios, London
Genre	Soundtrack, Contemporary classical music, Minimalist music
Length	49:15
Label	Virgin Venture
Producer	Michael Nyman
Michael Nyman chronology
6 Days 6 Nights
	UK/US cover (1995)

À la folie
À la folie
Directed by	Diane Kurys
Written by	Diane Kurys; Antoine Lacomblez
Produced by	Alexandre Arcady
Starring	Anne Parillaud; Béatrice Dalle; Patrick Aurignac
Cinematography	Fabio Conversi
Edited by	Luc Barnier
Music by	Michael Nyman
Distributed by	Pan Européenne Distribution
Release date	28 September 1994;
Running time	98 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Box office	$960.000

À la folie ("To Madness") (English: 6 Days, 6 Nights) is a 1994 French drama film by Diane Kurys with music by Michael Nyman. It entered the competition at the 51st Venice International Film Festival.^[2]

Cast

Anne Parillaud as Alice
Béatrice Dalle as Elsa
Patrick Aurignac [fr] as Franck
Bernard Verley as Sanders
Alain Chabat as Thomas
Jean-Claude de Goros [fr] as Raymond
Marie Guillard as Betty
Michael Massee (uncredited)

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

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.