Monday, September 23, 2024 | St. Lawrence County, NY
9/23 La Chimera (Italy etc., 2023, d. Alice Rohrracher) 130 m NR
When archeologist Arthur is released from prison after being sentenced for grave robbing, he is quick to return to his criminal tomb-raiding under pressure to find legitimate work. The final film in Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s trilogy of films reflecting on the human relationship with time and the past, La Chimera has been praised for its cinematography and for its odes to the greats of Italian cinema. Paul Whitington of the Irish Independent called La Chimera “a beautiful, haunting film, playful and melancholy, deliberately ragged around the edges.”
