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La chimera (Italian: [la kiˈmɛːra], meaning "The Impossible Dream") is a 2023 period comedy-drama film written and directed by Alice Rohrwacher. The film stars Josh O'Connor as a British archaeologist who gets involved in an international network of stolen Etruscan artifacts during the 1980s.
Mar 29, 2024 · “La Chimera” plays like a magical realism version of the classic one-last-heist movie. The core of it ultimately may reveal itself to be somewhat familiar: Newly released from prison for his crimes, a thief returns home to pull off the big job that will finally make him and his friends rich.
If La Chimera is a wild, improbable pursuit, this marvelous and magical tale by Alice Rochrwacher is the pie in the sky to behold. Read Critics Reviews
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Apr 2, 2024 · An archeological tomb robber wanders Italy, haunted by the memory of lost love. La Chimera is a playful fable that builds to not one but two thrilling scenes of underground exploration.
Mar 29, 2024 · La Chimera: Directed by Alice Rohrwacher. With Josh O'Connor, Carol Duarte, Vincenzo Nemolato, Isabella Rossellini. A group of archaeologists and the black market of historical artifacts.
Sep 8, 2023 · Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera opens on Arthur (Josh O’Connor) on a train, returning from places unknown, as it winds its way through the Italian country, the sun-dappled cinematography inducing a sleepy or meditative state. This idyllic tone makes an immediate, ironic contrast with our protagonist, a British man whose disheveled appearance ...
Mar 28, 2024 · Set in the 1980s, “La Chimera” centers on Arthur (a fine Josh O’Connor), a dejected British tomb raider who lives in rural Italy where he uses a dowsing stick...
Oct 12, 2023 · Alice Rohrwacher’s. La chimera. A fter charming Disney+ subscribers last Christmas with her holiday-themed short Le pupille —and scoring her first Oscar nomination—Alice Rohrwacher completed what her producer, Carlo Cresto Dina, calls her “trilogy on Italian identity.”.
Dec 5, 2023 · Following on from The Wonders (Grand Prix, 2014) and Happy as Lazzaro (Best Screenplay Award, 2018), Alice Rohrwacher continues her reflection on the past and identity with La Chimera, unveiled in Competition last May. In it, she looks at the secrets we leave behind and the dreams we pursue, through the story of a gang of Etruscan tomb robbers.
Mar 29, 2024 · For the band of tombaroli, thieves of ancient grave goods and archaeological wonders, the Chimera means redemption from work and the dream of easy wealth. For Arthur, the Chimera looks like the woman he lost, Beniamina.
