La Chimera

Best film I have seen in a long time!

La Chimera has an experimental messiness that some may find quirky, but which contributes to the feeling of something wondrously hand-crafted. Rohrwacher seems to be on a mission to re-enchant us through art, and I, for one, am grateful. There's something of a Weberian critique of bourgeois disenchantment underlying the film, which its protagonist, played by English actor Josh O' Connor (Challengers, The Crown), fights madly, heroically, to the very end. Here, the two worlds, the world of love, enchantment, beauty, sacredness, the idealism of the past remembered, is lost--it belongs is the world of the dead. The world of the living is one of commerce, survival, strategy, lies. How marvellous it is for Rohrwacher to guide us from one world to the other, down this winding river Styx to a somehow ever-present, ever-forgotten trap door: love. Love, in all of its manifestations: delusion, memory, simple appreciation, harmony.

I was interested in the film because I like Alice Rohrwacher’s film The Wonders. La Chimera is beautiful film.

Absolutely incredible, I was blown away. It's one of those movies where the less you know about the plot the better. If you're a fan of classic Italian flicks, you'll find it completely familiar and yet delightfully new at the same time.

Very decent cast but. . . and I really hate to be a downer but the chaotic and nearly disconnected scenes did not work for me and the ending - just not my kind of art perhaps.

The beginning of the film shows promise, however the storyline lacks background and one only begins to piece together the whole scenario around the 60-minute mark. Josh O'Connor and Carol Duarte are brilliant, unfortunately they could've shone even brighter in a film with a better story.

I really wanted to love this film, but it didn't live up to my expectations. Great faces in the cast, wonderful locations, enchanting musical interludes and a potentially fascinating story, but it ended up for me being less than the sum of its parts. Not quite enough magic and the threads of the story not coming together strongly.

La Chimera is an amazing movie with first rate actors. It's quite long,at 133 minutes,but it is never slow to entertain. It is presented, especially in the early scenes, in a mix of English and Italian as it is revealed that 'Arthur ' is British, but living and "working" in country town Italy, on a coast. The work is the main character here.... ransacking graves in a gang to sell the artefacts to a dodgy dealer. Arthur is just out of jail, and it is evident that he's going back to his familiar surroundings, people and work. The movie is richly made to include local festivals, town life and feels very real indeed. It is these everyday details which keep the audience focus, and the movie is alive with sound and colour. I could not decide to rate it more highly because we learn very little about the people themselves.

This is a beautiful film on every front: story, music, film photography. A perfect gem. Don't miss this! The ensemble is excellent.

How often do we see a movie about poor Italian tomb robbers, with all the double dealing that implies by multiple layers of criminals and museum