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.
The Enchanting Archaeological Romance of “La Chimera”
‘La Chimera’ Review: A Treasure Trove
‘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
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
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
“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.
Josh O’Connor reveals why he felt ‘lost’ after The Crown — and how that helped him connect with his latest role
Josh O’Connor reveals why he felt ‘lost’ after The Crown — and how that helped him connect with his latest role
The Emmy winner stars in “La Chimera,” about a man on a quest to reconnect with his lost love in the afterlife.
La Chimera
In Alice Rohrwacher’s hauntingly whimsical film, an archaeologist turned grave robber in 1980s Tuscany finds that some losses are buried
too deeply to be excavated.
Vue to Release Italy’s ‘Barbie’-Beating Smash Hit ‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ in U.K.
Vue to Release Italy’s ‘Barbie’-Beating Smash Hit ‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ in U.K. (EXCLUSIVE)
“There’s Still Tomorrow,” the Italian dramedy that last year became a box office sensation on home soil, is to be released in the U.K. and Ireland by exhibition giant Vue . The directorial debut of popular Italian actor Paola Cortellesi, the black-and-white film — “C’é Ancora Domania” in Italian an…
How ‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ is bringing women and older audiences back to Italian cinemas
How ‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ is bringing women and older audiences back to Italian cinemas
It is the film that just keeps on delivering in Italy. Paola Cortellesi’s smash hit There’s Still Tomorrow ( C’è Ancora Domani ) returned to cinemas in Italy for International Women’s Day on March 8, taking €137,000 to finish in second place at the box office behind Dune: Part Two.
How to Grow Old Like Isabella Rossellini
How to Grow Old Like Isabella Rossellini
“How do I fulfill the rest of my life? That question came to me very clearly at 45, and I didn’t have an answer.”