An Italian director on her own wavelength didn’t seek out the limelight — it found her


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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’

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” 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

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

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.