La Chimera - Reviews

...a beguiling fantasy-comedy of lost love: garrulous, uproarious and celebratory...

Slippery as ever, this is a piece to meditate on, with its themes of honouring the past (the struggle to move on when mourning a dead lover) and severing connections with the sacred...

Alice Rohrwacher’s wistful parable of ghosts left behind.

Starring The Crown's Josh O'Connor as a grouchy, supernatural grave robber, Alice Rohwacher's latest is a treasure ready to be discovered.

...a magical fairytale about a group of tomb raiders, anchored by a soulful performance from Josh O'Connor.

Shot on warm, hazy 35 mm stock, the film itself feels like a historical artefact that’s just out of reach, a mystical gateway between our own world and the underworld beneath our feet.

I’d say that O’Connor – late of Netflix’s The Crown, soon to be seen in Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers – delivers a star-making performance as Arthur...

...she proves once again that she’s one of the most singular and artful filmmakers working today.

...is quite beautifully crafted and gorgeous to look at, yet I found myself lulled into emotionally mute sedation by its relatively meager pleasantness.

Det är absurt, groteskt, roligt, det sjungs både opera och sånger som kommenterar handlingen...

Josh O'Connor [er] fantastisk som den melankolske Arthur.

...Rohrwachers foreløbige hovedværk og ulig noget andet, jeg har set i lang tid.

Berättelsen som börjar påfrestande långsamt, handlar till syvende och sist, om att ta vara på sin stund på jorden.

Att regissören Alice Rohrwacher jämförts med landsmannen Federico Fellini är inte konstigt. I Chimären finns det ett drömlikt bildspråk och verkligheten flyter ihop med mystiken likt i den sistnämndes mästerliga filmer.