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La Chimera Review: I Got Lost In This Magical Italian Drama & Haven’t Found My Way Out

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This new Italian movie from writer-director Alice Rohrwacher and starring Josh O’Connor is alive in the way great art can sometimes be.

SUMMARY

•  La Chimera presents a complex story centered on Arthur, an archaeologist with a deep connection to the past and a struggle to embrace the present.
•  The film explores themes of our relationship with the past, supernatural elements, and the blurred lines between reality, myth, and dreams.
•  La Chimera challenges viewers to consider the impact of living in the past or present, capturing the essence of longing for an ideal life that may be out of reach.

Writing about La Chimera in the concise, linear format of a review is a real challenge for me. Not because it's especially opaque or impenetrable; on the contrary, it makes for quite welcoming viewing. But the new Italian movie from writer-director Alice Rohrwacher is alive in the way great art can sometimes be. Its ideas are many, and its way of exploring them encourages an open, active mind. Trying to lock it into the rigid language of description, I fear, would sacrifice the forest for the trees.

I feel as if I was led into one of La Chimera's many Etruscan tombs, and as I wandered through the dark by candlelight, I kept discovering new rooms, each with their own treasures. Now, after returning to the surface, I'm being asked to map and catalog the place from memory. The movie is so interested in archeology (the credits dedicate it "to all archeologists, custodians of every end") that it becomes an analogue for the viewing experience. Rohrwacher asks us to interpret La Chimera the way archaeologists interpret fragments of the past.