La Chimera (15)

Genre: Cinema

La Chimera (15)

La Chimera (15)

Set in the 1980s in the former Etruscan landscape of rural Italy, Arthur, a vagabond-type character, is mourning the loss of his love. A local ragtag group of graverobbers make use of his archaeological skills to find ancient tombs filled with artefacts, but Arthur uses the digs to search for a door to the afterlife, of which myths speak, where he imagines reuniting with his love.

A filmmaker constantly seeking to push the scope of cinema, Alice Rohrwacher’s latest film is no exception. Having made its world premiere at Cannes, La Chimera stirs together history, romance and archaeology, with a dash of the supernatural, into a dreamy tonic made for those ready to slip into another realm.

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