Alice Rohrwacher, director of 'Happy as Lazzaro' and the Oscar-nominated 'Le Pupille,' returns with another elegant character study tinged by magical realism.
Time increases the monetary value of certain objects we leave behind. What was once brand new the years turn into antiques — like the Etruscan artifacts exhumed after being hidden for millennia in Alice Rohrwacher's “La Chimera,” a film of incandescent beauty, both aesthetically and in its thematic liminality.
Halfway through the film, a troubadour sings a ballad recounting the misadventures of the poor thieves we've been watching, pointing out Arthur’s adrift state. The tune plays over a montage that features cops-and-robbers chases in sped-up frames for comic effect — an amusing wink to bygone cinema tricks. But these fanciful flourishes never read superfluously, instead reaffirming Rohrwacher’s comfortable straddling of the real and the fantastical.
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