Alice Rohrwacher, Josh O’Connor, and Isabella Rossellini on La Chimera | Opens March 29

Director Alice Rohrwacher and cast members Josh O’Connor & Isabella Rossellini discuss their NYFF61 Main Slate selection, La Chimera, in a conversation moderated by NYFF Advisor Michelle Carey.
La Chimera opens at Film at Lincoln Center on March 29. Get tickets: www.filmlinc.org/films/la-chi...
With her customarily bewitching mixture of earthiness and magical realism, Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro, NYFF56) conjures a marvelous entertainment set in a rural Italy eternally caught between the ancient and the modern. Josh O’Connor (The Crown) stars as Arthur, a ne’er-do well Englishman, handsomely rumpled and recently out of prison, who returns to a rural town in central Italy where he hesitantly reconnects with a ragtag group of tombaroli (tomb raiders), for whom he uses his uncanny powers of divination to locate graves that date back to the Etruscan period and teem with antiquities of immense value to collectors and museums. Yet the melancholy Arthur has other ghosts on his mind, including his long-lost love Beniamina, who haunts his memory like her own ghostly civilization. Featuring gorgeous rough-hewn textures from the great cinematographer Hélène Louvart and outstanding supporting work from Isabella Rossellini, Carol Duarte, and Alba Rohrwacher, La Chimera is a dreamlike descent into a majestically tattered world right beneath our own. An NYFF61 Main Slate selection. A NEON release.
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[@patrickw123]

Just watched the film yesterday in the theater and it was beautiful! I love the way the story sneaks up on you through the layered scenes of people just living life and their daily motivations. Can't wait to watch more films from Rohrwacher.

[@berniekersse6488]

Happy as Lazzaro,2018.Great film worth discovering.

[@hundredcaws]

Just watched yesterday. Today i think of it all the time. Great costumes and sets! Seems timeless!

[@alisonbrown2614]

I haven't stopped thinking about this film since I saw it 4 days ago and that's what a good film should do. I love the direction that Josh O'Connor is going in his career since the delightful Durrells and his performance here was a treat. He seems to put such thought into his choice of film. Well done to all involved in this film and I look forward to Alice Rohrwacher's next work.

[@barbarawillis5187]

I love Alice's story of asking others their favorite poems to memorize herself.

[@dominiqueeden]

The interpreter is really very impressive!!

[@dmdmorg]

The red thread used by all Hollywood A listers is a lucky charm of sorts.