La Chimera
- IMDb link: 14561712
- IMDb rating: 7.3 (21,888 votes)
- Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Director: Isabella Rossellini, Alice Rohrwacher
- Cast: Josh O'Connor, Vincenzo Nemolato, Carol Duarte and others
- Release date: 29 Mar 2024
- Release year: 2023
- Runtime: 131 minutes
- Country: Italy, France, Switzerland, Turkey
- Keywords: 1980s, archaeologist, grave robber, italy, tuscany italy, upside down view, train, stolen artefact, release from prison, etruscan
Plot:
With an almost clairvoyant gift, Arthur (Josh O'Connor) is the leader of a gang of "Tombaroli", grave robbers who plunder Etruscan tombs in Italy in the early 1980s for grave goods, which they then turn into hard cash with fences. The young cunning man seems to have a special relationship with the afterlife - and with the past, in which his heart stopped when his Beniamina died while Arthur was in prison. Arthur's longing makes him unpredictable both to his accomplices and to the sympathetic Italia (Carol Duarte), whom he met in the decaying palace of the former opera diva Flora (Isabella Rossellini). When the gang make a find of the century, a beautifully preserved statue of Kybelen, "the new Venus de Milo" according to their art dealer, the gang threatens to break up.