Throughout Rohrwacher’s work, pastoral settings are infused with magical imagery and complex moral questions; La Chimera adds to this by opening a conversation with both its own storytelling and the traditions it sits alongside. So, if La Chimera is a tomb, what ancient treasures lie inside?
Written and edited by Will Webb.
LA CHIMERA is now showing in cinemas.
Set in the 1980s, in the former Etruscian landscape of rural Italy, Arthur, a vagabond-type character, is mourning the loss of his love. A local ragtag group of graverobbers make use of his archaeological skills to find ancient tombs filled with artefacts, but Arthur uses the digs to search for a door to the afterlife, of which myths speak, where he imagines reuniting with her.
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Curzon film was born in 1976 with the creation of Artificial Eye film releasing - a renowned film label widely recognised for being the leading distributor for international cinema, and introducing some of the greatest film directors of all time to discerning U.K. audiences including Michael Haneke, Lars von Trier, Andrei Tarkovsky and Abbas Kiarostami amongst others.
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