Title: La Chimera / The Chimera
Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Screenplay: Alice Rohrwacher
Photography: Hélène Louvart
Editing: Nelly Quettier
Cast: Josh O’Connor, Carol Duarte, Isabella Rossellini
Production: Tempesta, Ad Vitam, Amka Films Productions, Arte, Rai Cinema, con il contributo del Ministero della Cultura, RSI, TRT – Cinema, Canal +, Ciné +, con il sostegno di CNC Cinéma du Monde, Swiss Federal Office of Culture
Country: France, Italy, Switzerland
Year: 2023
Length: 134 min
Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For the band of tombaroli, thieves of ancient grave goods and archaeological wonders, the Chimera means redemption from work and the dream of easy wealth. For Arthur, the Chimera looks like the woman he lost, Beniamina. To find her, Arthur challenges the invisible, searches everywhere, goes inside the earth – in search of the door to the afterlife of which myths speak. In an adventurous journey between the living and the dead, between forests and cities, between celebrations and solitudes, the intertwined destinies of these characters unfold, all in search of the Chimera.