La Chimera (12A)

Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin St.

Mon 22 Jul 2024 - Wed 24 Jul 2024 (note: this event has already taken place)
5:30pm
€10.50/€5

132 mins - Italy / France / Switzerland / Turkey 2023 Director: Alice Rohrwacher Starring: Josh O'Connor, Carol Duarte and Isabella Rossellini A filmmaker constantly seeking to push the scope of cinema, Alice Rohrwacher’s latest film is no exception. Having made its world premiere at Cannes, LA CHIMERA stirs together history, romance and archaeology – with a dash of the supernatural – into a dreamy tonic made for those ready to slip into another realm. Set in the 1980s, in the former Etruscian landscape of rural Italy, the film follows a vagabond-type character called Arthur (Josh O’Connor); an Englishman who embodies the spirit of the Romantics, he is searching for something he can’t quite grasp. As an archaeologist, he makes use of his unique skills to aid a ragtag group of tomboroli – local graverobbers – to find ancient tombs filled with artefacts to sell on the black market. To the locals these graves are sacred, believing curses follow those who enter. But Arthur, who is mourning the loss of his love Beniamina, is less concerned with the monetary value of the objects,