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Josh O’Connor’s Spring of Swaggering, Searching Stardom
The Italian odyssey La Chimera, now in theaters, and next month’s sexy tennis drama, Challengers, pushed O’Connor to places he’d never been before—including the gym.
Filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher on La Chimera, Her Enchanting, Earthy New Film About the Past in the Present.
Among the film critics I most respect and admire, one name instills a kind of enraptured reverence: Alice (pronounced the Italian way, “ah-lee-chay”). (Greta and Sofia also get it.)…
LA CHIMERA – Q&A | Writer/Director Alice Rohrwacher
Film Independent’s Kate Mason talks to filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazarro) about her new feature LA CHIMERA, coming soon from NEON.Film Independent promotes unique independent voices by helping filmmakers create and advance new work.
The Enchanting Archaeological Romance of “La Chimera”
The ghosts of the past haunt Alice Rohrwacher’s fourth feature, which stars Josh O’Connor as a tomb raider nursing a broken heart.
‘La Chimera’ Review: A Treasure Trove
In her latest dreamy movie, the Italian director Alice Rohrwacher follows a tomb raider, played by Josh O’Connor, who’s pining for a lost love.
Listen: Annette Insdorf on Wojciech Jerzy Has + Alice Rohrwacher, Josh O’Connor & Isabella Rossellini on La Chimera
This week we’re excited to present two conversations. First up, with our retrospective celebrating the films of the late Polish director Wojciech Jerzy Has currently running through March 31, listen to FLC’s Digital Marketing Manager Erik Luers discuss the filmmaker’s career with Annette Insdorf, a celebrated scholar and author of the book Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has.
Movie Review: Alice Rohrwacher’s tombaroli tale ‘La Chimera’ is pure magic
When we talk about “movie magic,” the first thing that comes to mind is often something like the bikes achieving liftoff in “E.T.” But it applies no less to Alice Rohrwacher’s wondrous “La Chimera,” a grubbily transcendent folk tale of a film that finds its enchantment buried in the ground.
“We Go from 16mm to Super 16 to 35mm”: Alice Rohrwacher on La Chimera
Italian filmmaker Alice Rorhwacher’s puckish and scintillatingly tactile fourth feature is her most ambitious to date. Once again dramatizing the conflicting ideals of modernity and tradition, past and present, Rohrwacher continues to pay debt to forebears of Italian cinema like Ermanno Olmi while also infusing her film with a symbolic surrealism and neo-realist class consciousness reminiscent of the respective likes of Pier Paolo Pasolini Roberto Rossellini.
