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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 ...
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 17, 2024 · This week, we're talking about 'La chimera', directed by Alice Rohrwacher and starring Josh O'Connor and Isabella Rossellini. The film follows a band of graverobbers on a quest for Etruscan ...
May 9, 2024 · Set in 1980s Tuscany, it concerns a ragtag band of tombaroli: tomb raiders who break into Etruscan vaults to steal artefacts once buried with the dead. Chief among the crooks is Arthur, a scruffy ...
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 ...
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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 stocks and sometimes tweak the image in ways that evoke the cinematic antiquities of the silent era.
