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La Chimera (2023)

Drama | 130 minutes
3,40 115 votes

Genre: Fantasy / Comedy

Duration: 130 minuten

Country: Italy / France / Switzerland / Turkey

Directed by: Alice Rohrwacher

Stars: Josh O’Connor, Carol Duarte and Vincenzo Nemolato

IMDb score: 7,3 (20.783)

Releasedate: 12 October 2023

La Chimera plot

Arthur returns to a seaside resort on the Tyrrhenian Sea in the 1980s. Together with a group of robbers, he hunts for Etruscan treasures. At the same time, Arthur has the gift of feeling emptiness, an emptiness he has felt since he lost his love Beniamina.

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De filosoof

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The style of the film is somewhat reminiscent of Fellini and perhaps also Jarmusch or Wes Anderson, but without the visual spectacle: in an intelligent but light-hearted, dryly funny way we experience the adventures of a bunch of petty criminals (in this case: grave robbers) with some surrealism. elements. The story is nice but requires some interpretation or guesswork here and there to make it logical (and contains elements of social criticism such as the exploitation of student workers and the corruption of the art trade). The theme seems to be that we are not satisfied with what we have, so we continue to look for hidden treasures, which the main character has a special gift for finding, although - and this requires some interpretation or interpretation - that gift is essentially the gift to find the emptiness in his own existence.

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mrklm

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After serving a prison sentence, Arthur [Josh O'Connor] returns to the Italian village where he was part of a group of clandestine archaeologists. Arthur has a special gift: with the help of a dowsing rod, he finds the precise locations of ancient graves filled with relics. But actually Arthur is on a spiritual search for a shadow from his past. Rohrwacher needs no less than 90 minutes to create the characters and the atmosphere. A test on your patience, but what follows is worth it.

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hvdriel

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You will only have the gifts to discover hidden tombs (and steal the treasures) and to have access to the realm of the dead, where your disappeared/deceased friend with a common thread of Ariadne will assist you like a chimera.

This film by Alice Rohrwacher pretty much shows the two sides of life: the light and the dark, the living and the dead. She does this the 'Italian' way with a group of friends who seem to have walked out of a Pasolini or Fellini film, dirty images, cheering and dancing, and of course with lots of music.

Impressive at the time of watching, but hardly memorable for me.

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