La Chimera
Khoi Vinh

Review by Khoi Vinh Patron

La Chimera 2023

★★★★

Watched 25 Aug 2024

An exquisite, richly textured storytelling feat. I knew nothing going in, which turned out to be the ideal way to experience it, as director Alice Rohrwacher is in no rush to reveal the details or even the premise of this utterly original tale. It takes practically the whole first to act to understand what’s going on, but that deliberately ponderous reveal is delicious—the amount of trust that Rohrwacher places in the audience denotes a powerful directorial confidence. In fact, the filmmaking is so formidable it actually outclasses the script, which, while very good, fails to fully connect supporting players Carol Duarte and Isabella Rossellini to the central narrative. Josh O’Connor is superb, but he runs out of runway by the third act, where he seems lost as to where to take his character. Rohrwacher saves it all with a truly killer ending.

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