Lchimera by Alice Rohrwacher is the last Italian film in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. It will be the young promise of Italian cinema, already appreciated in France for its The wonders And Happy Lazarusto overcome masters such as Mark Bellocchio And Nanni Moretti (in competition with The sun of the future And Kidnapped)?
The director’s film, which takes you to the 80s among the grave robbers, which pays homage Federico Fellini And Pierpaolo Pasolini, could be the surprise of this edition marked by great authors such as Wim Wenders, Ken Loach, Kore-eda, Bilge Ceylan and Aki Kaurismaki. The answer lies with the jury headed by Ruben Östlund who will issue the verdict on Saturday.
The chimera: the plot, what the film is about
The eighties. Arthur (Josh O’Connor, The Crown) gets out of prison and finds, in a small town on the Tyrrhenian Sea, his friends, with whom he formed a band of robbersor the profaners of Etruscan tombs who go in search of archaeological wonders. Arthur has a gift, that of feeling the void, that is, he is a kind of diviner capable of finding the places of the past to desecrate.
The protagonist is a thief sui generis that he loves deeply the artalso brings with it the memory of a lost love, Benjamin. On his return he wants to meet, in addition to friends, the mother of BenjaminFlora (Isabella Rossellini), and the sisters. Will the gang of dreamers be able to find the chimera to get out of poverty?
Alice Rohrwacher he loves projecting himself into the past, as in his previous films, and telling how fundamental it is for our present. The journey is between world of the living and the deadbetween sacredness and profanation, afterlife and solitude in search of a place in the world.
Alice Rohrwacher’s gang of grave robbers. (Rai Cinema)
Josh O’Connor, the actor of The Crown in Cannes with Alice Rohrwacher
The actor who in The Crown plays the prince Carlo he searched Alice Rohrwacher after falling in love with our director’s films. At that point Alice modified the script to suit a younger performer.
“This film was a real adventure and a life experiencea real gift precisely because of the sensitivity of the character – he says Josh O’Connor – I can say that this was mine most unique cinematic experiencetruly unique. The chimera It’s a film that I love very much.”
The chimera and the homage to Federico Fellini
«This film talks about the past and the present, the afterlife and this side, the above and below – explains Alice Rohrwacher who pays homage Fellini And Pasolini – the chimera it is something we all strive to achievebut we can’t. For grave robbers it is the accursed desire to wealth that afflicts humanity, while for Arthur it is a love that has lost.
The director tells the world real, mysticalhistory and mythology. Arthur and his friends go in search of the tomb that could one day give the leap, and at the same time the door on a parallel universewhich opens up to the sky. A door that also seeks Floraa mother who has lost her daughter and who continues to wait incessantly.
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