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Film · 2023
La chimera
In 1980s Tuscany, an English archaeologist haunted by a lost love rejoins a band of tomb robbers, using his uncanny sense for buried chambers as their pursuit of Etruscan artifacts draws him between commerce, memory, and myth.
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The constant search of life after it’s lost. Alice Rohrwacher captures the loneliness of a man burdened by loss and enchanted by the past; he’s hanging on to love (and life) by a thread. Beautiful to look at, to feel, to experience.
cinemonika on Letterboxd La chimera bears fairy-tale colors and folk-song lightness, portraying the countryside without idyllic posturing, imagining a female-led world without ideological preaching. It digs into earth and subconscious, striving to redeem its characters even when impossible, breathing poetry into what lies beyond mortal eyes.
Paola Casella on MYmovies josh o'connor is a modern orpheus in a crumpled linen suit—still looking back, reaching for a lost love as he walks blindly into his own myth.
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