La Chimera
Directed by Alice Rohrwacher
Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For Arthur, the Chimera looks like the woman he lost, Beniamina. In an adventurous journey between the living and the dead, between forests and cities, between celebrations and solitudes, the intertwined destinies of these characters unfold, all in search of the Chimera. From TMDB
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60 of 222 · most liked firstThis evening’s film: La Chimera. Something really special, my god. boxd.it/cP63Yb
positive · AI labelView post →finally got to LA CHIMERA and it is a powerful reminder there is no better film trope than a beautifully tailored suit getting increasingly filthy over two hours
positive · AI labelView post →We’re halfway through the decade, so for every like I’m gonna list a film recommendation from this decade so far! (At least until I run out of recs) 🎥 Starting things off with: La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher, 2023)
neutral · AI labelView post →watching La Chimera with my girlfriend. saying shit like "this is the type of movie that makes you want a beige suit" and "god i wish i was wearing a beige suit right now"
positive · AI labelView post →Only just managed to watch #LaChimera (Alice Rohrwacher, 2023) - and twice in a row! - still reeling at what an impossibly good film it was.
positive · AI labelView post →Josh O’Connor’s run of Challengers/La Chimera/The Mastermind/Wake Up Dead Man is some incredible shit. Just announcing he’s a movie star in two years.
neutral · AI labelView post →<kicks the door open> oh so NOW audiences wanna see a devastating film about plunder and loss and grief set in the mediterrenean but when it was ALICE ROHRWACHER'S LA CHIMERA suddenly everybody was SOOOOOO BUSY
positive · AI labelView post →PSA for LA CHIMERA fans. Alice Rohrwacher's earlier film THE WONDERS is free to stream on Arte for the next 4 days. Another magical film with beautiful, naturalistic performances. (No Josh O'Connor in this one, but we can't have everything!) H/T @darrenmjones.bsky.social www.arte.tv/en/videos/05...
neutral · AI labelView post →Loved Tony Stella’s art, so many intricate and beautiful film posters. Here’s his stunning poster for Alice Rohrwacher’s brilliant La Chimera.
neutral · AI labelView post →I've just watched La Chimera on BBC iPlayer. Directed by Alice Rohrwacher. Absolutely brilliant - every frame counts, and the lead (Josh O'Connor) gives a mesmerising performance. Struck by this (doubtless coincidental) visual link to the British poet/painter/film maker Humphrey Jennings...
positive · AI labelView post →PATREON SUPPORTERS - Our next film in The Light Fantastic is the gorgeous, bluesy La Chimera. It'll be screening at 7.30 PM GMT on Sunday 25th January and you can read more about it here: www.patreon.com/posts/148773...
neutral · AI labelView post →On BBC Four tonight at 9.20pm. Alice Rohrwacher’s ‘La Chimera’ is a fabulous film. Full of glorious contrasts. Superb performance by Josh O’Connor as Arthur. Carol Duarte (Italia) and Isabella Rossellini (Flora) also wonderful.
positive · AI labelView post →Favourite film from every decade: 20s Man With a Movie Camera 30s Vampyr 40s A Canterbury Tale 50s All That Heaven Allows 60s Andrei Rublev 70s Mirror 80s Mishima 90s Beau Travail 00s My Winnipeg 10s Cemetery of Splendour 20s La Chimera #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →PSA for LA CHIMERA fans. Alice Rohrwacher’s previous film HAPPY AS LAZZARO is free to stream on Channel 4 (UK) for the next 3 days. #FilmSky www.channel4.com/programmes/h...
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching: “La Chimera” (2023) Dir. Alice Rohrwacher
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite movie of 2023 so far is LA CHIMERA. I also love ASTEROID CITY, JANET PLANET, THE BEAST, DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD, THE ZONE OF INTEREST, and LAST SUMMER.
positive · AI labelView post →This morning’s rather excellent film, La Chimera. Josh O’Connor is going to be a megastar.
positive · AI labelView post →working on Christmas even so you know I gotta watch a movie while working. La Chimera? Anora, perhaps?
neutral · AI labelView post →"Does it belong to no one or to everyone?" This summed up La Chimera for me. That question haunts several topics in the movie and I feel on a rewatch I will find a greater appreciation for the different ways it is answered. I also imagine my score will increase on a rewatch as well. 3.5/5 ⭐
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched LA CHIMERA (2023). Not a current Oscar contender. For the second time this week Josh O'Connor takes a character who is not easy to like and makes me care deeply about his fate. That ending took my breath away. My first Alice Rohrwacher film. Plus the great Isabella Rossellini!
positive · AI labelView post →Share one of your favorite film posters. Italian poster for La Chimera by Fabian Negrin.
neutral · AI labelView post →La Chimera, The Talented Mr. Ripley, CMBYN... I love it when italy has a starring role in a movie that admires her with a gentle lens.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched a lot of good movies in February. New watches included six contenders for the upcoming Oscars, my favorite was THE SECRET AGENT. I loved THE INFORMER (1929) and GOD'S OWN COUNTRY (2017). My favorite film, which may end up on my favorite 2026 watches, is Alice Rohrwacher's LA CHIMERA (2023).
positive · AI labelView post →My ★★★★ review of La Chimera boxd.it/8uAhuj Haunted & Haunting. Josh O'Connor is a grave robber yearning for love lost. Subtle experience in magical realism that has both whimsy & emotional resonance. Surprising gut punch lingers as credits roll. #filmsky 📽🎥🎞🎬
positive · AI labelView post →The film from this year which has really lasted with me is La Chimera, a unique voice and tone. Kneecap and The Substance are also keepers for me. How was 2024 in film for you?
positive · AI labelView post →Another unmissable movie heads-up for iPlayer watchers: the otherworldly La Chimera is screening from tonight
neutral · AI labelView post →Sorry(, baby), I'm trying to be more positive these days. Let me rephrase this: I hope The Secret Agent gets every nomination it can tomorrow, because it is a truly special movie in a way that only a few others—Decision to Leave, La Chimera, all the Hamaguchis—have been to me this decade.
positive · AI labelView post →Josh O Connor from La Chimera, best movie of 2025 #lachimera #charcoalart #joshoconnor
neutral · AI labelView post →Isobel's Top 10 Films of the 21st Century An Elephant Sitting Still The Turin Horse Goodbye Dragon Inn Certain Women Shoplifters Moonlight It Must Be Heaven La Chimera Cemetery of Splendor Castration Movie Bonus: DJ Q.bert's Wave Twisters
neutral · AI labelView post →thinking about La Chimera again…. prob my favorite movie rn
positive · AI labelView post →Most movie archaeologists are glorified tomb robbers, but there's no glory in the superb 'La Chimera' (iplayer), where the present seems as ruined as the past & protagonist Arthur belongs, as the director puts it, "to neither the world of the living nor the dead; he is the stranger at the threshold"
positive · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #Last4Watched Rewatches of two old favorites, plus: Child's Play (2019) - Overall liked it, especially the first half, but was disappointed in how they wrote Aubrey's character La Chimera - *Great* film from Alice Rohrwacher, starring Josh O'Connor. High rec.
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching LA CHIMERA (2023). Director: Alice Rohrwacher. Josh O'Connor, Isabella Rossellini. Watched Ingrid Bergman in a Roberto Rossellini film yesterday. Here's their daughter Isabella. #filmsky 📽🎥🎞🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →Fair warning, I may sometimes use Bluesky for ramblings on film, as where else would I do that? Watched Alice Rohrwacher's transcendent La Chimera last night, which has set my mind abuzz.
positive · AI labelView post →Still my favourite film of the year. La Chimera.
positive · AI labelView post →Well La Chimera (dir. Alice Rohrwacher) was a perfect way of while away the time before the exit poll. Josh O’Connor (my first film of his) is splendidly brooding, Belmondo bearding into Elliot Gould. And in fact though it’s set in the 80s the cinematographic vibe is gorgeously 60s/70s.
positive · AI labelView post →was weighing Civil War vs Monkey Man vs La Chimera, and missed the war news while I was watching the latter. Great movie. 4th 5-star film this year, for me: letterboxd.com/medievalkarl...
positive · AI labelView post →La Chimera wasn’t initially on my radar, but I ended up really appreciating it. It’s an unusual film, beautifully textured, and the character’s journey emotionally stuck between worlds, searching, and oddly touching. Sometimes the quieter discoveries are the most rewarding.
positive · AI labelView post →In theaters Friday, Kelly Reichardt’s gorgeous, funny-sad ‘70s-set art heist movie THE MASTERMIND is led by another deeply lived-in performance from Josh O’Connor, whose rumpled charm reminded me of his beautiful work in LA CHIMERA. One of the year's best. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →Josh O’connor being in this movie is nice bc it reminds you that despite everything there ARE still good movies coming out ( La Chimera, The Mastermind) but this is not one of them
positive · AI labelView post →Got MUBI subs for a quid so I’ve been catching up with some fillums. La Chimera is compelling and profound - an absolutely fantastic movie; Die My Love is bleak and beautiful, and The Apartment remains one of the greats. Any MUBI reccies, film folks?
positive · AI labelView post →My favourite film of the 21st Century is La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher). @sightsoundmag.bsky.social
positive · AI labelView post →23. LA CHIMERA Sprawling, intimate, profound and mysterious. Josh O'Connor is absolutely mesmerizing in this rich tapestry of a movie that feels like it traveled through time.
positive · AI labelView post →Just revisited La Chimera and it’s clearly my film for 2024…but I am seeing The Brutalist on Sunday.
positive · AI labelView post →I wrote about Alice Rohrwacher’s remarkable new film, La Chimera, which interrogates questions of labor, love, the burden of the past, & whether one should always say yes to life. Also, how and why it is a poem. garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/la-chimera
neutral · AI labelView post →Ich bin offiziell alt: Gestern den Film La Chimera gesehen. Heute die Schauspieler auf IMDB nachgeschlagen. Der Film ist als Periodic Drama gelistet. Er spielt in den 70er, Anfang 80er. Das war meine Jugend! 😭 Historischer Film, my a..
neutral · AI labelView post →was lucky enough to see a preview of LA CHIMERA at the bfi this eve, a screening tying in with the glasgow film festival. had such a good time. makes me want to rewatch Fellini’s ROMA, read about the etruscans, write about thin places & visiting the underworld…
positive · AI labelView post →Putting the + in #ACenturyPlus! Favorite + Best film for 2020-25: 2020: Blow the Man Down + First Cow 2021: Petite Maman + The Power of the Dog 2022: Kimi + Babylon 2023: La Chimera + Past Lives 2024: Rebel Ridge + The Substance 2025: The Ballad of Wallis Island + Sinners What are yours? #Filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →La Chimera aka best movie ever yes #art #traditionalarts #oil on canvas
positive · AI labelView post →Så sygt mange film i juleferien, både gode og dårlige. Et par af de gode: La Chimera (Filmstriben) Under the Silver Lake (Filmstriben) Queer (HBO) Train Dreams (Netflix) Mere her: boxd.it/bV0v
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh man, so many, but I have to go with my favourite film of the year, La Chimera.
positive · AI labelView post →Continuing Italian film week with La Chimera (2023)! Really enjoying Josh O'Connor speaking Italian btw. Top tip: Don't let @xshike.bsky.social rent the movie on Prime because you'll be watching with French subtitles instead of English. I'm being so multilingual rn.
positive · AI labelView post →10. LA CHIMERA, Alice Rohrwacher. A film about searching and digging in the past, looking for way to mend a severed connection. Rohrwacher is making magic here.
positive · AI labelView post →Josh O'Connor can have a little bootleg archaeology (grave-robbing)... as a treat. For a film that takes place primarily in dirt & squalor, it's oddly beautiful. My ★★★★ review of La Chimera on Letterboxd boxd.it/80eXLR
positive · AI labelView post →Alice Rohrwacher’s movie La Chimera, out last year in Europe and this year in the US, is strange and fun and interesting. It’s on Hulu now, fyi. (That’s two Josh O’Connor roles that absolutely rule this year, Challengers is one of my favorites of 2024.)
positive · AI labelView post →A lot of films this year feel like four star films that have been over-noted down to a three or two star movie. (The Origin of Evil and La Chimera would both be better films if they finished at their better, natural endings earlier). Maybe that's why there's been nothing properly bad BAD.
neutral · AI labelView post →Bizarrely, I suggested that Rohrwacher should film Baron in the Trees when I reviewed La Chimera for @uncutmagazine.bsky.social two years ago!
neutral · AI labelView post →Tony's poster for La Chimera is superb (as is the movie itslef)
positive · AI labelView post →Watched La Chimera (2023) on a whim. Fuck. Beautiful film. A knife in my heart, yet extremely therapeutic.
positive · AI labelView post →Took a break from *gestures* all of this to watch La Chimera with The Light Fanastic film club. It was a lot, but in a really good way. It made me want to crimp my hair and cause some chaos, and also to hug and protect everyone. Beautifully done.
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