Neon debuted the official trailer for La Chimera, the romance drama starring Josh O’Connor, Carol Duarte, Vincenzo Nemolato, Alba Rohrwacher and Isabella Rossellini.

Josh O’Connor stars as Arthur, a young British archaeologist in Italy who gets involved in an international network of stolen Etruscan artifacts during the 1980s.

Release Date

Directed by Alice Rohrwacher, La Chimera world premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, and will open in theaters on March 29th.

Synopsis

Everyone has their own Chimera, everything they try to achieve but never manage to find. For the bond of tombaroli, thieves of ancient grave goods and archeological wonders, the Chimera means redemption from work and the dream of easy wealth. For Arthur, the Chimera looks like the woman he lost, Beniamina. To find her, Arthur challenges the invisible, searches everywhere, goes inside the earth – insearch of the door to the afterlife of which myths speak. In an adventurous journey between the living and the dead, between forests and cities, between celebrations and solitudes, the intertwined destinies of these characters unfold, all in search of the Chimera.

Reviews

Giving the film a perfect 5 of 5 stars in their review, Guardian wrote, “Alice Rohrwacher’s new film is a beguiling fantasy-comedy of lost love: garrulous, uproarious and celebratory in her absolutely distinctive style. It’s a movie bustling and teeming with life, with characters fighting, singing, thieving and breaking the fourth wall to address us directly. As with her previous film Happy As Lazzaro, Rohrwacher homes in on a poignant sense of Italy as a treasure house of past glories, a necropolitan culture of ancient excellence.”

Indiewire review graded the film a B+, and drew a comparison to ‘Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny’ writing, “Strange as that coincidence might be, it’s no surprise that Alice Rohrwacher’s new film is better than a Disney blockbuster that happens to share the same general milieu, but it’s worth pointing out that the arthouse version of this story is far more entertaining than the studio blockbuster take. It’s also shorter (if only just), sexier (by a lot), and Isabella Rossellini-er (imagine her doing a catty, live-action riff on her character from “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”). It even has a better villain, played to perfection by an obvious but unexpected European star whose performance here could be slotted into a summer tentpole without missing a beat.”

Official Trailer

Watch the official trailer for La Chimera