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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 ...
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.
- (10K)
- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
- Alice Rohrwacher
- 2024-03-29
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 ...
Apr 2, 2024 · Neon. Carol Duarte and Josh O'Connor in La Chimera. The wonderful 42-year-old filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher practices a kind of cinema that I've come to think of as "Italian magical neorealism." She ...
May 10, 2024 · The film “La Chimera” by Alice Rohrwacher, starring Josh O’Connor and Isabella Rossellini, explores the world of Italy’s “tombaroli” grave robbers, and the black market they fueled.
Born in 1981 in Fiesole, Italy, she studied in Turin and Lisbon. She wrote and performed music for the theatre before being drawn to the cinema, where she began working as a documentary editor. In 2006 she participated in the collective feature film ‘Checosamanca’ with the episode ‘La fiumara’, and her first feature, ‘Corpo Celeste ...
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Mar 30, 2024 · Review: A sun-dappled Italian fable, ‘La Chimera’ feels like the discovery of a new language. Josh O’Connor, center, in the movie “La Chimera.”. Time increases the monetary value of ...
