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This Palme d'Or nominee from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher (Happy As Lazzaro) follows the travails of Arthur (Josh O'Conner, The Crown),...
This Palme d'Or nominee from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher (Happy As Lazzaro) follows the travails of Arthur (Josh O'Conner, The Crown), an Englishman in Italy with a preternatural ability to connect with the land.
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Dreamy, lyrical
Rohrwacher’s work teems with life, allowing us to visit shabby street carnivals, tour sparkling seas from luxe boats, and meet raucous parochial characters. She is, to my mind, the closest thing we have to a contemporary Fellini, particularly in those festive sequences and in her dreamy, lyrical direction. Read full article
94 %145 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
74 %196 reviewsAudience score rating
"Uniquely magical."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"Enchanting..."
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Variety
Variety"Wonderfully strange..."
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The Times
The Times"Divine..."
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Little White Lies
Little White Lies"Uproarious..."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"This strange, messy, resonant film aims to unearth buried treasure... it succeeds when it doesn’t worry too much about neatness and precision."
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Screen Daily
Screen Daily"O’Connor’s exquisite performance seems to channel Harry Dean Stanton’s haunted turn in Paris, Texas..."
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IndieWire
IndieWire"Another meandering folk tale from the much-lauded Italian director."
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The Irish Times
The Irish Times"The further down the film descends, the more transfixing its images tend to get..."
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The Telegraph
The TelegraphLa Chimera | Details
- Rating
- M, Offensive language
- Runtime
- 131
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- France, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey
