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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 ...
Mar 29, 2024 · March 29, 2024 12 PM PT. When actor Josh O’Connor first saw a film by director Alice Rohrwacher — it was her 2018 feature “Happy as Lazzaro” — the experience was revelatory. “It was as ...
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Apr 2, 2024 · Female Filmmakers in Focus: Alice Rohrwacher on La Chimera. Marya E. Gates. April 2, 2024. 8 min read. Set in 1980s Tuscany, the ethereal romantic drama “La chimera” from writer-director Alice Rohrwacher follows the plights of Arthur (Josh O'Connor), a heartbroken British archaeologist who uses a divining rod to locate Etruscan artifacts ...
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.
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To find her, Arthur challenges the invisible, searches everywhere, goes inside the earth – in search of the door to the afterlife of which myths speak. In an adventurous journey between the living and the dead, between forests and cities, between celebrations and solitudes, the intertwined destin…. Click here to play/stop the trailer.
