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la chimera (2023)

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La chimera (2023) dir. Alice Rohrwacher

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La chimera Alice Rohrwacher. 2023

Station 00051 Allumiere, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Italy See in map

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ten frames.

la chimera (2023) — dir. alice rohrwacher

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La Chimera | Alice Rohrwacher | 2023

film poster by 2023

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Challengers if it was about etruscan art instead of tennis

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LA CHIMERA (Alice Rohrwacher, 2023)

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Cannes Film Festival 2023 🤍

Credit to Pascal Le Segretain & Dominique Charriau for the 1st and 2nd photo

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La Chimera

directed by Alice Rohrwacher, 2023

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La Chimera is a 2023 film written and directed by Alice Rohrwacher. The film stars Josh O'Connor as a British archaeologist who gets involved in an international network of stolen Etruscan artifacts during the 1980s. Carol Duarte, Vincenzo Nemolato, Alba Rohrwacher and Isabella Rossellini appear in supporting roles.

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La chimera, Alice Rohrwacher (2023)

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La chimera (2023) dir. Alice Rohrwacher

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La Chimera (2024) review

With Challengers and La Chimera, Josh O’Connor has now starred in two films in a row made by Italian filmmakers, and not just Italian, but Luca Guadagnino. I’m aware that La Chimera is directed by Alice Rohrwacher, but the movie just feels like a Luca film through and through, from the camerawork to the narrative themes. My point however is with these two roles does this make Josh O’Connor the new Timothee Chalamet?? He’s already nabbed himself a juicy role as one of the suspects in the upcoming Knives Out threequel, so the kid’s going places. Mark my words, he’s gonna end up in Dune eventually, it’s inevitable.

Plot: Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For the band of tombaroli, thieves of ancient grave goods and archaeological wonders, the Chimera means redemption from work and the dream of easy wealth. For Arthur, the Chimera looks like the woman he lost, Beniamina. 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 destinies of these characters unfold, all in search of the Chimera.

I’m fully aware that this has been critically praised left and right, and is a festival darling, however I’m here to disappoint you with an unpopular opinion - I did not love this one. The first hour is so frustratingly long and tedious and meandering that I lost any interest by the time the plot fully kicked in. Look, I appreciate a slow burner if it’s well made and serves a narrative purpose. Whether it’s Harry Dean Stanton wandering aimlessly through the American desert with lost dreams in Paris, Texas (1984) or Donald Sutherland exploring the streets of Venice in a state of grief in Don’t Look Now (1973), those movies are both extremely slow paced and yet manage to be so captivating due to the incredible performances and very articulate and detailed camerawork and direction that’s builds upon multiple emotions. In La Chimera however even though it features all the parts of the slow burner formula made great by the aforementioned films, it for some reason all felt pretentious and drawn out to the extreme.

Hats off to Josh O’Connor who gives it his all and reminded me a little of Donald Sutherland from back in the 70’s, and you can see him really trying to grasp at the limited strings of his character to try and reach for some kind of depth in what otherwise is a hollow role. Yep, I get that he’s supposed to be a metaphor for loss and preservation, but there was hardly anything for him to do here. The movie tries so hard to be this poetic allegory, yet I didn’t feel a think. It’s funny as back when I was an acting/creative writing student in university, I’d imagine I’d dig up this grave of a film (pun intended) and be absolutely showering it in praise as I was a swellhead and self-centred artsy fart who thought entertainment had to be slow and boring. Okay, not to that extreme, but my tastes have definitely changed since then and a film like La Chimera comes off as over-indulgent and obsessed with itself.

Nothing sticks, nothing grabs, La Chimera is dull as a muddy puddle, with uninvolving characters, a boring storyline with a protagonist exclusively moping about for over two hours. At least Rohrwacher hired Hélène Louvart to shoot her new film. La Chimera does at least look great in an understated way. Sometimes films do not connect despite the best intentions of the director and the viewer. Sometimes, it’s a viewer problem. Wrong time of day, wrong seat, wrong part of the theatre, tiredness, the person sitting next to you being annoying, several factors play into the reception of a motion picture, good and bad. Perhaps Rohrwacher’s La Chimera is a work of real merit and distinction, but see something in the wrong circumstances, in the wrong mood, it can harm both film and viewer. Again I appreciate that others are loving this film, but this one wasn’t for me.

Overall score: 4/10

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Carol Duarte and Josh O’Connor on the set of La Chimera 2023

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La Chimera (2023) - "Venti km al giorno" (Clip)

Starring Carol Duarte & Josh O'Connor. Directed by Alice Rohrwacher.

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Hey, what would have happened if Arthur had not pulled away after kissing Italia? (damn, I need to rub my nose against his nose too, ilhsm)

I am the number one Arthur and Italia fan they're just so 🩷🩷💕💞💕💗💘💞💘💞💘🩷💘💞💗💞💌🩷💌💌🩷💞💕💗💕🩷💕💞💘💓💘💓��💞💗💕💗💕💌💘

I don't think they actually would have had sex or done anything dirty as there's rarely any hint of anything erotic between these two, but there's a chance that if they did, it would have convinced Arthur to stay.

However, I believe that Arthur was still incredibly loyal to Beniamina, and perhaps thought he wasn't the best one for Italia (because let's face it, there are so many things that make them fundamentally different) and that's why he left her. If anything, he needed to give it all some time and unfortunately found himself in that tricky situation in the end.

But yeah, perhaps if Italia was willing to have sex with Arthur (which, honestly, I don't believe neither of them really wanted), things could have been different.