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La chimera (Italian: [la kiˈmɛːra], meaning "The Impossible Dream") is a 2023 period comedy-drama film written and directed by Alice Rohrwacher. The film stars Josh O'Connor as a British looter who gets involved in an international network of stolen Etruscan artifacts during the 1980s. Carol Duarte, Vincenzo Nemolato, Alba Rohrwacher and ...
Apr 2, 2024 · La Chimera is set in the 1980s, but it could be taking place 20 years earlier, or 20 years later. Rohrwacher and her brilliant cinematographer, Hélène Louvart, shot the movie on a mix of film ...
May 9, 2024 · La Chimera is a story of Italy’s Great Raid, a 1980s phenomenon that saw hundreds of ancient Etruscan tombs looted by tombaroli (tomb raiders). These crypts had been considered sacred for over 2,000 years, left intact by locals out of reverence for the dead. But a cultural shift, brought on by the hyper-charged capitalism of the era, saw ...
La Chimera: Directed by Alice Rohrwacher. With Josh O'Connor, Carol Duarte, Vincenzo Nemolato, Isabella Rossellini. Just out of jail, crumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of accomplices - a happy-go-lucky collective of grave-robbers who survive by looting Etruscan tombs and fencing the ancient treasures they dig up.
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- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
- Alice Rohrwacher
- 2024-03-29
May 8, 2024 · Alice Rohrwacher’s playful, Palme d’Or-nominated film about tomb raiders summons the ghosts of Italy’s past. The Italian writer-director Alice Rohrwacher’s first feature, Corpo Celeste, was concerned with the heavenly realms above. Her fourth, La Chimera, nominated for the Palm d’Or at last year’s Cannes, takes us into the soil beneath.
A man searches for the door to the afterlife to reunite with the woman he lost. Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For the band of tombaroli, thieves of ancient grave goods and archaeological wonders, the Chimera means redemption from work and the dream of easy wealth.
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Apr 2, 2024 · La Chimera is set in the 1980s, but it could be taking place 20 years earlier, or 20 years later. Rohrwacher and her brilliant cinematographer, Hélène Louvart, shot the movie on a mix of film ...
