Josh O'Connor as Arthur smoking a cigarette in La Chimera.
The Big Picture Near the end of writer-director Alice Rohrwacher’s quietly spellbinding feature La Chimera, there is a moment where everything that preceded it comes into focus. It is the type of sequence that is already up there as one of the better finales of 2024, as it combines all the flashes of a painful past and the path forward into something subtly explosive.
What Is 'La Chimera' About? This all begins with a dream that is also a memory. Arthur, played by Josh O'Connor at his very best, is returning home on a train and having visions of someone he has lost. When he awakens, he seems less than pleased about the reality that greets him. He has nothing but the clothes on his back which, as is remarked by someone on the trip, certainly seem to smell.
The film is one which Rohrwacher has said, perhaps with a slight cheekiness, is heavily inspired by elements of the original Indiana Jones, and you can get the sense that there is a sense of adventure existing on the margins. It always stays there as we see the group going about their business, to the point where it starts to feel more routine and ordinary.
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