La Chimera

Alice Rohrwacher | Italy, France, Switzerland, Türkiye | 2024 | M

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Sat 28 Dec 2024 – Sun 19 Jan 2025

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A beguiling and enchanting comedy about graverobbing, lost loves and ancient artifacts.

Set in Tuscany in the 1980s, La Chimera stars a dishevelled Josh O’Conner playing ex-con Arthur, a lovelorn tomb raider who reunites with his grave-robbing gang to plunder the ancient wonders of the Tuscan countryside. Seeking out his lost love’s mother, Arthur finds himself embroiled in the lives of a group of women living in a dilapidated mansion, led by their enigmatic matriarch Flora, played by Isabella Rossellini.

Alice Rohrwacher’s eccentric and critically acclaimed film follows her equally magical Happy As Lazzaro (2018), a film also preoccupied with Italy's ancient past. La Chimera’s Fellini-esque voyage through Italy's ancient antiquities has an air of romanticism and melancholy that captivates and enchants.

Enigmatic, absorbing and so much more alive than any pottery behind glass in a museum, this is an exquisitely crafted, grown-up Indiana Jones steeped in its own distinctive magic.

Laura Venning (Empire Magazine)

Format: DCP

Language: Italian, English, French & Portuguese with English subtitles

Source: Palace Films

Courtesy: Palace Films

Runtime: 130 mins