‘La Chimera’ Director Alice Rohrwacher and Isabella Rossellini on Excavating Italian Cinema (Exclusive)
The Italian writer and director Alice Rohrwacher’s fourth feature, La Chimera, is the story of an archeologist — known only as the Englishman in less reputable circles — with a penchant for plundering tombs and selling their buried treasures on the black market. In her filmmaking, Rohrwacher fancies herself something of an archeologist, too, albeit with less disturbing of the dead.