Directed by ALICE ROHRWACHER
Starring JOSH O’CONNOR, ISABELLA ROSSELLINI CAROL DUARTE
Released 10 MAY
A woman is missing. Arthur (Josh O’Connor) imagines her, he sees her in his dreams, but deep down he knows that Beniamina (Yile Vianello) is gone, even if he can’t admit it to himself. Or to her mother, Flora (Isabella Rossellini), who he returns to after a short stint in prison. He can’t quite adjust to the outside world, and not just because Italian isn’t his first language and some locals giggle at this strange Englishman.
There is something destabilising, too, about Alice Rohrwacher’s style, which she has expanded for La Chimera, her fourth feature, into something almost linear, with all sorts of visual ideas – from exaggerated blocking, to jump cuts, to sped up footage – that are…