2023 · drama · fantasy
La Chimera
Directed by Alice Rohrwacher2h 11m2023
Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For Arthur, the Chimera looks like the woman he lost, Beniamina. In an adventurous journey between the living and the dead, between forests and cities, between celebrations and solitudes, the intertwined destinies of these characters unfold, all in search of the Chimera.
Our read: La Chimera (2023) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / fantasy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- inventive
- signature
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“You want dreamy Italian grave-robbing folklore with gentle magic and aching longing.”
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