La Chimera
Cert: 15 Year: 2023 Length: 130 mins Language: Italian, French & Portuguese
Synopsis
Josh O'Connor, who can do no wrong, stars in 'his best performance to date'; Alice Rohrwacher directs her 'best film to date'. How good can it get?
"As Arthur, a renegade British archaeologist in 1980s Tuscany, O'Connor plays his character as a man adrift and disconnected from the world. The de facto leader, thanks to his mystical gift for divining the location of long-sealed tombs, of a rowdy and disreputable band of grave robbers, or tombaroli, Arthur reluctantly inhabits the present but is continually drawn to the past: to the distant past, and the beauty of the ancient artefacts that he hawks to collectors, and to the recent past, and an elusive time of happiness with his lost love Beniamina" - Wendy Ide, Observer.
Critics
The film’s riches come from Rohrwacher’s seemingly inexhaustible wealth of ideas...
Wendy Ide, Observer
It stirs up a fierce protectiveness in the viewer. Treasure this now, hold it, turn it, and examine it from all sides, or it may slip beyond your grasp.
Clarisse Loughrey, Independent
This is an exquisitely crafted, grown-up Indiana Jones steeped in its own distinctive magic.
Laura Venning, Empire Magazine
Not just great, but expansive: it shows new ways a movie can be.
Esmé Holden, Little White Lies
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Since then, the club has won Film Society Of The Year and awards for Best Programme four times and Best Website twice.
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