La Chimera’ is marvelous — right up to its most magical ending – NPR
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‘La Chimera’ Director Alice Rohrwacher and Isabella Rossellini on Excavating Italian Cinema (Exclusive)
‘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.
La Chimera Is the Perfect Kind of Film to Get Lost In
La Chimera Is the Perfect Kind of Film to Get Lost In
It’s rare these days to find yourself happily lost in a movie’s dream. We have plenty of allegedly fantastical pictures begging for our attentiveness: projects based on already existing gazillion-dollar intellectual properties, puzzle movies with complicated, outlandish plots, classy horror films that strive to remind us, as if we needed reminding, that they’re part of a genre that deserves to be taken seriously. But Alice Rohrwacher’s enigmatic and bracing La Chimera, its touch as glancing as a zephyr, asks more of us while demanding less. It’s the kind of movie you wake up from, as opposed to one you merely watch.
‘La Chimera’: Josh O’Connor Digs His Own Grave — and Comes Back a Star
‘La Chimera’: Josh O’Connor Digs His Own Grave — and Comes Back a Star
The former ‘Crown’ actor officially starts his leading-man phase with this moody, magical-realist story of a tomb raider chasing a lost love
An Italian director on her own wavelength didn’t seek out the limelight — it found her
An Italian director on her own wavelength didn’t seek out the limelight — it found her
Josh O’Connor Lived in a Camper Van, Bathed in a Lake, and Chopped Wood to Star in ‘La Chimera’
Josh O’Connor Lived in a Camper Van, Bathed in a Lake, and Chopped Wood to Star in ‘La Chimera’
The British actor, along with filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher and co-star Isabella Rossellini, tells IndieWire about his very Method approach to playing an archaeologist obsessed with the ghost of an old flame.
La Chimera
La Chimera
“La Chimera” plays like a magical realism version of the classic one-last-heist movie.
A Sad-Eyed Josh O’Connor Goes Tomb-Raiding in the Lovely, Mysterious La Chimera
A Sad-Eyed Josh O’Connor Goes Tomb-Raiding in the Lovely, Mysterious La Chimera
Review: A sun-dappled Italian fable, ‘La Chimera’ feels like the discovery of a new language
Review: A sun-dappled Italian fable, ‘La Chimera’ feels like the discovery of a new language
Time increases the monetary value of certain objects we leave behind. What was once brand new the years turn into antiques — like the Etruscan artifacts exhumed after being hidden for millennia in Alice Rohrwacher’s “La Chimera,” a film of incandescent beauty, both aesthetically and in its thematic liminality. As with Rohrwacher’s previous movies, there is an exquisite blurring between the tangible and the ethereal, the urban and the pastoral, life and death, past and present — all of it overlapping with the same ease as the hues of a twilight sky.
Josh O’Connor’s Spring of Swaggering, Searching Stardom
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.