A filmmaker fascinated by the intersection between natural words and human civilisation, Alice Rohrwacher concludes her decade-long inquiry into the question of “What to do with the past?” with La Chimera, a striking fairy tale about a young archaeologist (played by Josh O’Connor) who becomes entangled with a group of tomb raiders in 1980s Italy.
This topic has concerned my life forever, concerned my region, concerned the whole Mediterranean – but in particular where I live is a place where, in
