A heist story, a ghost story, and a love story all at once, La chimera is an entrancing trip through the Italian countryside in the '80s that feels something like a waking dream.
La chimera doesn't quite have the same level of magical realism as Rohrwacher's last film Happy as Lazzaro, but it dances between life, and the afterlife, the past, and the present in a way that blurs together these planes of existence.
In Greek mythology, a chimera is a fire-breathing hybrid creature with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail. But no monsters appear in Rohrwacher's La chimera.
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