Alice Rohrwacher, Josh O’Connor, and Isabella Rossellini sat down with NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim after the NYFF61 premiere of their film, La Chimera, to discuss archaeology, mutual admiration, and a new generation of Italian filmmaking.
With her customarily bewitching mixture of earthiness and magical realism, Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro) conjures a marvelous entertainment starring O’Connor as a ne’er-do well Englishman, handsomely rumpled and recently out of prison, who returns to a rural town in central Italy where he hesitantly reconnects with a ragtag group of tombaroli (tomb raiders).
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