La Chimera - dowsing for treasure
Posted: Sat May 27, 2023 12:10 pm
I don't think I'm likely to go and see this film, but if it happens to appear on telly at some point it might be worth a look:
Read the rest of the review here.The London Economic wrote:Cannes 2023 Film Review: La Chimera
Arthur Harrison (Josh O’Connor) has a special gift. With a dowsing rod in hand, he can detect buried treasure. Living in Italy, though it’s never explained why, he and a band of grave-robbers dig up Etruscan artefacts and sell them on the black market to the highest bidder.
Arthur is also a rather sad guy. Pining for a lost love we presume has died at some point in the recent past, he walks around in dirty clothes, unkempt beard and looks almost destitute. Alice Rohrwacher’s latest is a rather mystifying work, with nothing to hold onto, offering up a vague story about a vague man with a vague life and vague friends. Mystery only works if it’s alluring and grips. Here, it does neither.
Nothing sticks, nothing grabs, La Chimera (2023) is dull as a muddy puddle, with uninvolving characters, a boring storyline with a protagonist exclusively moping about for over two hours. At least Rohrwacher hired Hélène Louvart to shoot her new film. La Chimera does at least look great in an understated way.