Movie Review: Alice Rohrwacher's tombaroli tale 'La Chimera' is pure magic
When we talk about “movie magic,” the first thing that comes to mind is often something like the bikes achieving liftoff in “E.T.” But it applies no less to Alice Rohrwacher’s wondrous “La Chimera,” a grubbily transcendent folk tale of a film that finds its enchantment buried in the ground.
“Were you dreaming?” a train conductor asks the sleeping (Josh O’Connor), a distant, temperamental Brit in with little more to his name than the rumpled cream-colored linen suit he.
