Gian Piero Capretto, Ramona Fiorini, Melochiorre Pala, Josh O’Connor, Luca Gargiullo, Vincenzo Nemolato, and Lou Roy LecollinetPhoto: NeonThe past is so close you can almost touch it in Alice Rohrwacher’s romantic treasure hunt, La Chimera. Set in the liminal space between living and dying, better known as the Italian countryside, Rohwacher’s carefully excavated narrative unearths a funny and deeply satisfying meditation on loss and hope. Appropriately, half the joy of La Chimera is in discovery
Couretsy of CannesLike Federico Fellini, whose spirit hovers over her latest, Italian director Alice Rohrwacher has a genuine appreciation for faces, and she seizes upon a fine one in Josh O’Connor, whose alternately pleasant and surly countenance conceals as much as it expresses in La Chimera.As an English expat traipsing about 1980s Tuscany in search of precious and elusive objects of desire, The Crown alum vacillates between pensive and impulsive, despairing and determined, his shifts in thou