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Cinema

Wonderfully special: La chimera reviewed

11 May 2024

9:00 AM

11 May 2024

9:00 AM

La chimera

15, Key cities

La chimera, which, as in English, means something like ‘the unrealisable dream’, is the latest film from Italian writer/director Alice Rohrwacher (The Wonders, Happy as Lazzaro). Her films are arthouse, in the sense that if you’re in the mood for someone blowing stuff up and escaping by speedboat while enjoying flirtatious repartee with a sexy lady, this probably won’t cut it.

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