Justin Chang reviews “La Chimera,” the fourth feature by the Italian writer and director Alice Rohrwacher, starring Josh O’Connor and Isabella Rossellini.
“La Chimera,” Rohrwacher’s moody and marvellous fourth feature, is set in the nineteen-eighties, but it could be unfolding two decades earlier—or later. In any event, the title primes us for a tale of mythological resonance, and rightly so. The protagonist, Arthur , is a twentieth-century Orpheus in a grubby linen suit who, when we meet him, is dreaming of his Eurydice: a beautiful woman named Beniamina , who calls to him, in ghostly visions, from across a seemingly unconquerable divide.
As the first rays of moonlight spill across the cavern, the paintings on the walls seem to dull in detail and intensity; the colors drain, and the lines fade. In a single moment, Rohrwacher gets at something haunted and true. We like to tell ourselves that the appreciation of art is something that makes us human, but some art is distorted beyond recognition—and even destroyed—by the very gaze that might lend it meaning.
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