Alice Rohrwacher’s ‘La Chimera’ Delights With A Nine-Minute Standing Ovation In Cannes – Deadline

the chimeraas Deadline’s Pete Hammond wrote in his reviewit is “an adventure, an ethereal and spiritual journey, a love story even on different levels, and a heist movie like no other”.

The action center is set in the 1980s and is about the notorious Tombaroli of Italy, a group of grave robbers who aspire to live an easy life by taking from the dead and digging up and raiding cemeteries and tombs to steal treasures from bygone eras. thousands of years. old to sell to the billboards, particularly here the mysterious person known only as Spartacus.

O’Connor plays a foreigner who is on a mission to perhaps discover a key to the afterlife so he can be reunited with his true love. His unique talent for digging into the past in other ways leads to his association with the Tombaroli.

Rohrwacher, who has won awards at Cannes for two previous films, the 2014 The wonders (Grand Prix) and 2018 Happy as Lazarus (Screenplay) and was nominated for an Oscar this year for her live-action short. The pupil, it has built a formidable reputation for itself, particularly by breaking into the boys’ club that is traditionally Cannes’ competition.