"Enchanting and Uproarious: 'La Chimera' Receives Standing Ovation at Cannes"

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Source: Variety
"Enchanting and Uproarious: 'La Chimera' Receives Standing Ovation at Cannes"
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"La Chimera" is a new film by Alice Rohrwacher that tells the story of competing grave-robbers in Central Italy. The film touches the transcendental without diving into the outright fabulism of Rohrwacher’s previous work. Josh O'Connor plays Arthur, a wandering Brit who is accustomed to limbo states. The film is shot fluidly on multiple film formats and makes a virtue of its skittering, literally shape-shifting visual quality.

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