Keswick Film Club - La Chimera

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.